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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That's Liza with a Z . . . as in ZAP! BAM! POW!
Life was no "Cabaret" for the estranged husband of Liza Minnelli, who is accusing her in a $10 million lawsuit of repeatedly and drunkenly pummeling him during their short, bizarre marriage - leaving him with lingering injuries.
"Liza! Stop it! Stop it!" producer and Shirley Temple memorabilia collector David Gest says he shouted during one alleged beating.
Some allegations in the stunning lawsuit, filed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court:
Drunk on vodka, Minnelli threw a lamp at Gest in a London hotel suite before pummeling his face.
Another vodka-fueled whupping came in their E. 69th St. apartment, when she beat Gest "with her hands about the head until he ran into the other room."
Minnelli also turned against her production manager, Steve Benanav, nearly strangling him.
Who needs reality TV when we have -- A MINI-SERIES!