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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Wasserman's last years were not happy. He sold MCA to Japanese electronics firm Matsushita in 1990 for $6.1 billion, ending up with $327 million for his stock. But he never got along with his new bosses, and they never bothered to tell him when they unloaded a controlling stake to Canadian drinks firm Seagram Co. a few years later.
He was given the meaningless title of chairman emeritus, and reduced to dining alone at the Universal commissary. He died in 2002, aged 89. In the film, Avrich claims some people turned up to his memorial service to make sure he was dead.
Don't you feel sorry for IMMORTALS?