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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When is the zero of change, the spot in time when time begins? Not the big bang, or even the little one. Not when you learn to count your first tune [?]. Not that first now that twists back on itself. All moments start from the one when you see how they all must end.
and the cutesy-pie Updike clone Nicholson Baker, who writes in A Box of Matches about nothing. Books like these, with their fancy language and their disconnection to life, explain why Tom Wolfe mistakenly felt news hacks could solve fiction's ills. If the walking dead keep disgorging novels, what's the hope for literature? (It's no accident this same magazine ran that tantrum about Don DeLillo & Co.)