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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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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Posted
10:53 AM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: The Wall Street Casino is giving the newspaper biz an excuse for bad performance.P. S. at 1:32 p. m.McClatchy (MNI) has gotten generous with its holiday handouts - at least for a few execs, on whom it's ladling tons of restricted stock for the first time in a while. CEO Gary Pruitt, who presided over the firm's acquisition of Knight Ridder (as well as a 90% stock decline) gets a whopping 450,000 RSUs.Why shouldn't he? The newspaper biz is BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!
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