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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"Who else is going to work in an art supply store?" asked Steven Steinberg, the 68-year-old owner. (He, however, is not an artist, he specified: "God, no!") His grandfather, Benjamin Steinberg, an immigrant from Russia, opened the store in 1905, selling secondhand goods, including artists' materials. Mr. Steinberg grew up making bicycle deliveries to steady customers like Franz Kline and de Kooning.
"When I was a kid, people actually made careers out of working," he said. "Today, everyone is working hoping to make it big in something else."
One suspects today's Rembrandts would be better off working.