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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A sucker may be born every minute, but few were as big as David Denby.
The New Yorker's film critic admits in his upcoming memoir, "American Sucker," that he lost hundreds of thousands in greedy pursuit of dot-com riches - and that's not all.
His wife of 18 years left; he came close to a nervous breakdown; and he had "a six-month obsession with Internet porn - harrowing stuff for a New Yorker staff writer"....
And we're supposed to believe in his JUDGMENT?
One must ask: did watching hundreds of movies a year and acting as a high-toned shill have anything to do with it?