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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With the $2.7 million he made from catching and selling Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball, the most famous fan in St. Louis paid about $1.2 million in taxes, donated about $250,000 to charity and bought a $10,000 caricature of the record-breaking slugger.
The portrait, with McGwire's comic-book muscles drawn to superhuman size, was perfect for an office or a den. But only six and a half years after Philip Ozersky caught and then sold the ball, his remaining souvenir sits in storage, collecting dust.
Think of what $2.7 million could buy. Someone bought $2.7 million of horsehide, stuffing, stitches, mud from the Delaware River bottom, and DUST. For $2.7 million he could have bought -- COMIC BOOKS. To everything there is a season, and to every season its muscle-enhancing 'ROIDS.