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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A story like this should not run for the same reason THE PAPER OF RE-CORD should not have let that toady Laura allow the wife of a former staffer to plug a movie. This whole episode reeks of backscratching; clearly Little Howie LIKES the guy, and had planned this for some time. To complete the puzzle he doesn't at all question how a BIGMEDIA man can suddenly change his stripes. He hasn't; his last two jobs have been with BIGMEDIA. There's too much favor granting by HACKS, whether it's the anonymous source seeing his revenge plastered on the front page, or the show-biz groupie seeking virtual sex through rave reviews. THIS is why we've come to hate the hacks, and it has little in common with THE DO-NOT-CALL LAW.