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. Earth Day Is 4O [SIC!] Years Old. What Headway Have We Made?
Headway enough so MULTINATIONALS can commit treason in a politically correct way.
2. Believe us, CRAINIACS, your industry friends don't have to save the earth to blame the customer.
3. MARKETERS are bringing ads to online bank statements, meaning merely another medium ignored, and another excuse to hike FEES.
4. Part of the problem, YUM RESTAURANTS, is that so many outlets described your new "sandwich" as EW! YUCK!! GROSS!!! it was highly unlikely that many would seek it out -- and besides, the market does seem to be declining for microscopic chicken wings.
5. TRANSLATION: THE MOST TRUSTED CABLE NEWS NETWORK is doing INFOMERCIALS, no news (that's obvious) to anyone who ever saw the late unlamented Lou Dobbs production PINNACLE, or who ever witnessed its show-biz "news", or LARRY KING.