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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Anxious staffers are not only fearful about losing their jobs but also are apprehensive about, if they remain, how the restructuring will affect their ability to chase big stories and swarm major news events. [Emphasis added]
Note the word swarm. Already thousands and thousands of reporters swarm "major news events" that need no swarming; the only result is a mass headache. Why do we need thousands and thousands and thousands of hacks to swarm the same three or four stories and achieve Guinness Book records for copying? Yes we feel sorry for those let go, but they're being let go in part because for too long editors mistook mass for insight. We have enough mass in mass media.
(Via the bloviator HENRY HONEST. How did he luck out?)