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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With so many entertainment options available now, consumers are finding less value from entertainment products and an overwhelming majority are displeased with the industry’s [SIC] move to charge for services provided over the Internet, according to a survey by public relations company Edelman.
In its 2011 survey, Los Angeles- and London-based Edelman found that the value consumers are getting from the entertainment industry has fallen by 68 percent in all areas. Only 17 percent of all respondents feel that entertainment sources today provide "very good" or "excellent" value.
We don't know where that 68 percent number comes from -- 68 percent of zero is still zero -- but yep, anything that's no good free has no value, and the only people who'd say it has value of the people who produce the junk, or the industry's publicists.
(Via I Want Media)