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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This is, very strictly speaking, true. Whenever news hacks really really like somebody, they call him a genius. Thus rappers are geniuses, fifty-something rock "legends" are geniuses, PC hack pols are geniuses, third-rate filmmakers are geniuses, certain especially rapacious businessmen are geniuses (LEGENDARY Welch, for instance), fifth-rate novelists are geniuses, and anyone in the news business is a genius. Under this definition, then, Roone Arledge was a genius. That doesn't mean he was that smart, and in the treacherous news trade, it doesn't mean he was good.