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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Terry Teachout, you're looking righter every day.
P. S.
Pruett says there's a market for celebrity homes, but his favorite example — the childhood house of rapper Eminem — is more a cautionary tale than inspiration.
A pair of investors bought the cramped tract home in Warren, Mich., from Eminem's uncle and tried several times to auction it on EBay. The bids raced up to $10 million [pffh-hh-hh], but they weren't from serious buyers [chuckle chuckle chuckle]. Two years later, the house is still unsold. [HARDY HAR HAR!!!!!]
You don't suppose this is one reason Mug's Kingdom has gone from $118 to $80 in a month, do you?