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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Seems the favorite hobby of lots of news hacks is sitting on a stone (or rather, on a comfortable office chair), putting head to hand, and looking RUMINATIVE -- like THE THINKER. Today A. O. with B. O. decides to THINK, as Thomas J. Watson enjoined generations of IBM nerds, as Prof. Harold Hill pleaded to the boys in his River City band, and he comes up with a MIND-BENDING NOTION: that COMIC BOOK HEROES have WALLOPED MOVIE STARS. (And we can mention LI-TE-RAH-TEEYURE, to make it acceptable to those granny fans of Tom Friedman's -- and to PINCH.) WOW!! We really need a high-powered paper and exceedingly-well-paid scribblers to tell us THAT! Maybe I'll assume the Thinker pose too, if it'll make ME some money!