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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The Dalai Lama, made the "Heroes and Icons'' list. So did golfer Tiger Woods and soccer star David Beckham -- along with California's new governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. [FIRST and LAST grafs.]
Gotta repeat something -- AGAIN:
...[T]here are many reasons for the rise of The List. The top five reasons are:
1) Lists are the easiest way to organize information without actually thinking.
2) Magazine editors are too lazy to think of anything more creative.
3) Magazine editors figure their readers are too lazy to read anything but lists.
4) Magazine readers really are too lazy to read anything but lists.
5) David Letterman's Top Ten lists have warped everybody's mind.
Most magazine lists are, needless to say, totally stupid.
P. S. AND:
Peter Jackson, director of the film epic "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,'' and J.K. Rowling, who wrote the Harry Potter books, were listed as "Artists and Entertainers.''
I have NO idea why THEY'RE there. Do YOU, STERNO?!?!?
And a SPECIAL THANKS to the REUT, which apparently ran a PRESS RELEASE as NEWS -- witness that "Time" is CAPITALIZED THREE TIMES in the story.