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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Okay flack, let's add up your numbers -- 271,563 + 464,559 + 453,488 + 283,331 + 269,338 = 1,742,279. Knowing how the record mafia inflates numbers that's still very much less than ten percent of what WACKO supposedly did with his "MASTERPIECE" -- and most of these prematurely deaf fans buy multiple albums. I'm IMPRESSED.
And a special NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD for the finger-calisthenics practitioner who typed: "DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK: CD SALES SURGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" You have a future -- only we hope it isn't in the NEWS BIZ.