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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Nat King Cole Returns to Billboard's Top 50 for the First Time Since 1965 With Triumphant #41 Debut Of 'The World Of Nat King Cole'
Our musical culture has grown so eviscerated that people dare to congratulate themselves over something like this. We needn't guess what takes up the other forty-nine slots. Nor does it mean people have suddenly acquired good taste, for much of EMI's umpteenth repackaging consists of the unchallenging sticky-sweet-and-slow ballads of his commercial prime, not the truly undying stuff with the Trio. Well, we're glad to have you back any way we can get you, Nat. Now if only we could have your kind of music again for REAL.