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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Confronted with AHTSJournal piffle like this we must post these three TWXSTER covers, including one we ran just the other day. How often must we confront shameless self-promotion? Take the promotion away from most news rags and you have ads, and a stuttering graf or two of that pablum called "news". And FT always boasts of how a gazillion readers pay umpteen bazillion dollars -- for PR? Here again is why we must not trust news hacks, and why we must never stoop to paying for PR, however elite the source.
And we intend to root through all eighty-seven years of TWXSTERISM in hunt of embarrassing covers like these, and will devote a weekly post to them.