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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Problem is, there will always be media moguls. There were moguls in the theater and vaudeville. Thomas Edison was the first electronic entertainment mogul. He was followed by Carl Laemmle, the anti-mogul who became a mogul. He was followed by the immigrants, who in turn were followed by the current generation of slime. Already KING BRIAN has assumed his own cushy velvet throne. Nick Denton wants to be Mr. Webmogul. No, there will always be media moguls, and their product will always be BAD.
Or as IMDB.com says of Laemmle:
[H]is output consisted mostly of low-budget westerns and melodramas, churned out in a process designed to resemble a factory.
The more things change....