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.
PERMALINKS:
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TRANSLATION: Huff 'n' Puff's using its venture-capital money. We have NEVER had a fully truthful story about Huff 'n' Puff OR Nick Dorken. No hack has EVER given us credible FACT-based information that either outfit's making money; all we've gotten are charts posted by interns on CuteLittlePinkPaper.com which they charmingly insist show Nick IS MAKING MONEY!!!!! In the absence of facts we're left with the bloviating of two megalomaniacs. We know exceedingly well how many topics are off-limits to the truth with hacks; that these two are now at the top of the list says whether our supposed leading Web news sites are healthy is none of our business.
And the fact HOWIE HAIRSHIRT wrote it is a FURTHER demerit. (We have not clicked on the link and will not click.)