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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"It [presumably he refers to the mythical TIME INC., which certain pretentious NEWS HACKS STILL call by that name though it vanished FIFTEEN YEARS AGO] is a strange company and it is a different company now, and it is really part of an entertainment complex. The journalism part is smaller and smaller. There is a great question out there: is this a journalistic company or an entertainment company?
Considering that Time has ALWAYS been about ENTERTAININGLY SKEWING the news, considering that it really broke into the big time in theaters and radio with THE MARCH OF TIME, considering that the GREAT Hank Luce wanted to purchase what is now the ESPNCorp Television Network, considering the outfit owned TV stations and FOUNDED HBO, considering how many of its writers have graduated to type BAD SCREENPLAYS, I'd say it's ALWAYS BEEN AN ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY.