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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What do NEWS HACKS and SHOW-BIZ types have most in common? They give themselves AWARDS, GAGGLES of AWARDS, by which tokens of self-esteem they can set their achievements in the FIRMAMENT. YELL it to the world that BILL SHATNER won an award for BEST SUPPORTING AC-TOR in a TV SERIES! (He still works? I thought that ended with his singing career.) SCREAM it to the world that LEO looks EXACTLY LIKE HOWARD HUGHES! BRAG it to the world that we're in a SUPERPLATINUM AGE OF ENTERTAINMENT! This is one reason why both professions draw TOADIES out of the woodwork, why they have an uncomfortable resemblance to prostitution (literally and figuratively), and why their much-proclaimed excellence dies when today's paper becomes tomorrow's puppy fodder, or with the inevitable reruns.