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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Mr. Bewkes, our favorite PEPE LÉ PEW-producing media mogul, tells us why He's not a media mogul:
In the old media business world, people spoke of moguls who were often self-promoting guys and undisciplined when it came to deals and the like. "We're not moguls anymore," Bewkes said later. "We're reasonable people" who try to make the right decisions.
Okay Jeff, let's compare You and Jack Warner. He was a mogul. He might have been self-promoting and undisciplined. He and his brothers brought sound to the movies. His studio also produced Casablanca, something You couldn't do in a million years. Or let's compare You and Henry Luce. Okay, we grant we don't like Luce. He was a tyrant and a news-slanter. ("They saw Ike, and they liked what they saw!!!!!") But he also founded a number of big magazines. You merely shuffle papers.
On the other hand, by dint of Your job You are a mogul. Despite Your essential impotence You wield more power than some heads of state. For a mogul to say He's reasonable is like Hef saying He's chaste. And any Guy who'd remake The Wizard of Oz word for word may not be making the right decisions.
Oh Jeff, given what Your Empire -- I mean, Your lemonade stand disgorges we wonder why You'd have any concerns for Your son. Or was a CONGRESSMAN in the audience?
(Via I Want Media)