Rules of news
: Lost Remote’s Steve Safran gives us laws, theories, axioms, and paraodes of news. Selections:
: THE LAW OF BREAKING NEWS
“Breaking news” is usually neither.
: RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW OF BREAKING NEWS, with respect to MURPHY
When there actually is breaking news, it will happen when you are on skeleton staff.
: THE LAW OF NEWS CONSPIRACIES
Those who believe there is a “giant media conspiracy” have never seen three producers try to agree what to get on a pizza.
: COROLLARY TO THE LAW OF NEWS CONSPIRACIES
The media are not right-wing, left-wing, pro-choice, pro-abortion, pro-gun, anti-war or any other such nonsense. We are pro-leaving-work-on-time and very pro-heading-to-the-bar.
THE “BALANCED NEWS” PARADOX
Equally distributed quotes from both sides do not a balanced report make.
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