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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MORE THAN 1,000 APPLY FOR STEWART/COLBERT RALLY PRESS CREDENTIALS!!!!!
> "'THE DAILY SHOW' STOCK HAS BALLOONED OVER THE LAST DECADE!!!!!'"
> JON FRIEDMAN: "HE'D BE AN IDEAL CHOICE TO SUCCEED COURIC!!!!!!!!!!" [Romy link; historic overemphasis added]
And two doors meekly down:
Claim: Boston Globe worth no more than $120 million [Romy link]
And, um, uh, er....
"I'm being very generous" with that figure, media appraiser Kevin Kamen tells Jeff Bercovici. "I would say it's worth, realistically, $75 million." (He says the extra $45 million is based on the assumption that a buyer must have a notion of how to make money from it beyond "Let's buy this thing and see what happens.") The Times Co. bought the paper for $1.1 billion in 1993. [Emphasis added]
We hate to harp on this but what began as another SUMNER practical joke has bloated into a national media nervous breakdown, a jackhammering beseechment in the form of an all-too-earnest agnostic's prayer that the forces of right overcome the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL of the incoming NAZIS. For that reason these four stories are related.
LET'S BUY THIS THING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS! Pfffffffffffffffffffffft!