THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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1. The Crainiacs offer another wearying excuse for buzzwords:
The 2010 Census is expected to find that 309 million people live in the United States. But one person will be missing: the average American.
"The concept of an 'average American' is gone, probably forever," demographics expert Peter Francese writes in 2010 America, a new Ad Age white paper. "The average American has been replaced by a complex, multidimensional society that defies simplistic labeling."
I doubt if there's been an "average American" since the first Indians arrived. Why try making a vice out of a virtue?
2. The Crainiacs offer another wearying press release for that cutesy-pie bad-grammar cat site -- but some other Crainiac (yes, that Crainiac) gets his revenge:
I Blame Twitter for the Fact That I Totally Hate Kittens
3. Some of the folks who made His Omnipotence an honorary EU member think they can stop binge drinking by stopping the ads. OR:
In France, there has been a long-time TV ban on alcohol advertising, yet the binge drinking culture is beginning to permeate French society, which has had a reputation as the home of moderate drinking.
Sorry to repeat myself, but the only thing that will stop European binge drinking is minarets.
4. Moon 'n' Stars is producing a magazine, which is better than producing junk television.