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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I'm not sure I appreciate megachurches. To me they're not so much about God as cheerleading: the loud bad music, the video screens and walls, the production values, the pep-rally chants, the "preachers" screaming at the top of their lungs an anodyne gospel that is less Jesus than prosperity, and less the Bible's word than Dale Carnegie's. Robert "Touchy-Feely" Schuller runs one of the biggest megachurches, but its smiley face and happy attitudes somehow did not prevent the pastor from getting into an impromptu religious war with a flight attendant, or his musical director from barricading himself in an office and killing himself. I wonder if the hordes who attend megachuches leave their "services" any different than they entered, or if it's just some sort of easy way to get 100 percent of your spiritual vitamins -- Total for the soul.
P. S. Who sits in the luxury boxes?
P. P. S. Yes yes, I know, Billy Sunday did the same thing; he had Al Jolson help him out. Who remembers Billy Sunday as anything but the leading begetter of Prohibition and a fount of catch phrases?