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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By the way, is Seussical a "muze-ical" or a "muse-ical?" Whatever it is -- and I doubt that it's either -- it just played here in Philadelphia at the Merriam, the old Shubert, where Kiss Me, Kate had its tryouts. What a comedown. (Another example of how our culture's improved. Once we got Broadway tryouts, now we get a bus-and-truck production of Saturday Night Fever, a bus-and-truck production of The Full Monty, a bus-and-truck production of South Pacific -- with Robert Goulet, a bus-and-truck production of....)