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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God knows what came over me but I clicked on Maxim's Web site, and however popular it may be it has the bloom of a dying web site. As I've said before perhaps the target audience has come to realize it's being talked down to, and resents it. What's more, Maxim's a tease. Caught between testosterone and the usual consumer-products sugar-daddy advertisers such a site can please no one. Witness the comments of this link to an old, stale AOL feature. (Who wrote that disclaimer? THE CONSPIRACY or THE ADVERTISERS? It has BELTWAY all over it. They WOULD think flesh worse than four-letter words.) Here is yet another argument that it's best to do something right or (preferably) not do it at all -- and as this amply demonstrates, some Web sites are best not doing anything.