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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Every time I've gone to the New York Daily News' site this picture's been, uh, sticking out at me. I am compelled to put the lady down because of her 20-octave (or whatever the former Mr. Mariah said it was) screeching, and her flop in the movies, and her slightly vapid face, and a horizontal belly button (as I noted before) that really must hide behind a curtain. But then I notice the artful -- uh, pose; and in looking up this picture in Yahoo! News I found the lady's been condemned by the sex-with-goats brigade in Malaysia for promoting "immoral values."
So I guess she isn't all that bad.