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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It used to be that male actors had sex appeal. (DON'T GET ME STARTED ABOUT THE FEMALES.) Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Robert Taylor -- all were strikingly handsome men with a surfeit of, to use that overworked word, CHARISMA. Now any slob can get into the movies and have an army of PRESS AGENTS (many of whom work for newspapers) call him "SEXY." Sorry, this is just the umpteenth variant of BLATHERGATE, of news hacks refusing to tell the truth, or worse, trying to SELL SOMETHING.