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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US Weekly says it has obtained exclusive photos of Hollywood superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie enjoying a beach vacation in Africa this week along with her toddler son, Maddox. Two dozen photos of the couple - long the subject of rumors - set off a frenzied international bidding war yesterday.
Us scored the celebrity jackpot by paying what one source estimates was up to a staggering $1 million for the U.S. rights to the pictures, which will appear in the magazine's next issue.
All for a couple of bores at whom millions of readers can throw up their hands in disgust and yell, "WHO CARES?"