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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LITTLE TOM CRUISE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE COUCH [John Podhoretz]
Brooke Shields is going after Tom Cruise at the right time. I happened to be watching his unbelievable "I love Katie Holmes" performance onOprah [typical Corner SIC] the other week and I began the countdown to his eventual starring role on CSI: Medicine Hat. In past years, when Cruise was represented by a brilliant PR executive named Pat Kingsley, there would be these moments when uncomfortable rumors would swirl around him. Just then, he would appear out of nowhere and pull somebody from a burning car or save somebody from a carjacking. This is not a joke. But he fired Pat Kingsley, and now he's leaping up and down on Oprah's couch and insulting women with post-partum depression because they take medication. Memo to Cruise: Go hire an extra, stage a drive-by shooting and rescue somebody. But quick.
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