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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T.O. MUST GO
Notwithstanding the slight (and from a distance, indecipherable) qualifier that PHIL SHERIDAN said it, the InkyDinkyDooDoo has worn out our patience. We recognize a sports section that has turned out more ESPN loudmouths than any other is a PROFIT CENTER. We KNOW TONY spent countless hours in his negotiations with GanNETt hashing over THE FLYING KEYBOARD's worth. That said, these are little more than battles among megalomaniacs, and we are now every bit as intolerant of these FRED FLINTSTONES as of JIMMY and BOB, and yes, overplaying these childish tantrums will in the end hurt circulation as much as the epidemic BIAS and BAD WRITING.