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 whole sordid biz reminds me of two infamous political ads: one of the great secrets of presidential campaigning is that THE LBJ DAISY AD AIRED ONCE AND NEVER AGAIN, and THE WILLIE HORTON AD ONLY AIRED ON TV NEWS SHOWS -- it got its start on the vile McLAUGHLIN GROUP. Press releases like these are merely a BACKDOOR WAY OF CAMPAIGNING and serve to demonstrate the NEWS HACKS' IMMEASURABLY HIGH CONTEMPT FOR THEIR PUBLIC AND THEIR TOTAL MORAL INCONTINENCE.