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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The impending move of "Monday Night Football" from ABC to ESPN provides a sharp reminder that the millions of viewers who can't afford cable or satellite TV are increasingly outcasts in the television world.
Bull. Think of it this way: Monday Night Football is moving to Sunday nights on GE Bancorp Network; Sunday Night Monday Night Football is moving to Monday nights on ESPN. The real losers are at ESPNCORP, who are paying a fortune more for a diminished property. The Super Bowl will stay on the free air for as long as the eye can see so that HACKS like YOU can PLUG THE ADS.
But then the same INTELLECTUAL GIANTS who told us ESPNCORP's act was a STROKE OF GENIUS are the SAME IDIOTS who are telling us the new Pope's a NAZI. They'll say anything; we'll believe nothing.