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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"Doonesbury" creator: There's nothing I can do to prepare for a post-newspaper future
Greensboro News & Record
"Other than hope that the large media companies will come to their senses and form a gated Web collective along the lines of cable TV," says Garry Trudeau. "They need to form a news utility, financed by subscription or micropayments because going it alone has been disastrous for all of them."
Posted at 10:38 AM on Oct. 5, 2009
Pay for YOUR chicken scratch?
AND:
"I'm not saying I'm not worth it," says Peter King, who offered to give back some of his salary to save jobs at Sports Illustrated. "But I make a stupid amount of money. Sometimes it seems a little absurd considering what's happening in our business."
Pay for YOUR ridiculous salaries?
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