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.
Why we do NOT need the ASSPress, and why we do not need the publicists who call themselves JOURNALISTS: Yahoo! Philadelphia (or whatever it is) stuck me with this ASSPress bilge about Atlantic City because I had the right ZIP Code -- but despite all the professors of GAMING and retired GAMING executives scratching their scalps raw deeply wondering why the city's a disaster zone no one seems to have noticed that all those not-so-glittery GAMING halls are...
IN THE GHEEEEEEEEE-TOOOOOOOOOOO....
The SLUMS have absolutely NOTHING to do with Atlantic City's failure -- and all these trumpeting ex-TRUMPSTERS boasting about how WONDERFUL AC was tell me they ignored the GHEEEEEEEEEE-TOOOOOOOOOOOO too. SO DID THE ASSPRESS, which uses words like "ghetto", "slums" and "crime" NOT ONCE.
When the commenters are far more revealing than the story, that is the very definition of SUPERFLUOUS.
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD (Feeling Sorry Division) TO WAYNE!