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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"Bob Thompson! Aw geez, you've caught me between twelve interviews I have a Times reporter no not your Times sorry and the USA Today asked me about Joe Millionaire and one of Murdoch's papers has me on the line about Michael Jackson and I've been up to my ears with American Idol and I've got half a dozen papers asking for my take on reality TV it's tough being a professor but I think I can oblige I'll give another quote I give so many of them I'm Mr. TV Expert the Paul Derger, the Paul Daraber, the Instant Quote Man of pop culture what do you want to know?"
NO MORE QUOTES FROM PROF. THOMPSON.