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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We somehow nearly missed this one: Thanks to an inventor named Frederick Ives we have six astounding stereoscopic color pictures of San Francisco from after the 1906 earthquake. Such pictures would be dull but these, somehow, take us into another world because we cannot imagine antediluvian America in other than monochrome; to see them somehow sets off the imagination, and yearning. That they are among the documentary evidence of the greatest cataclysm the nation ever knew only intensifies their interest. If only we could transport ourselves back to the America of 1906, the age of Teddy Roosevelt and bustles and derbies and trolley cars and the melting pot and baseball. Misplaced nostalgia comes easily viewing these astonishing images but it is hard to believe life however much more difficult -- and it was very much more difficult for many races and creeds, and for women and some children -- wasn't somehow much more exciting, and real, and dullness is an ingredient in our inspissated gloom.