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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Bob Denver was a harmless symbol of the genuinely despicable men who took over television in the sixties and seventies and helped turn it from a vast wasteland to a vaster sewer - the James "The Cobra" Aubreys, the Fred Silvermans, the Aaron Spellings, the Chuck Barrises, men so eager to put ratings and advertising dollars above everything that they sacrificed the public to their overweaning ambitions -- but as time went on the public increasingly refused to be thrown into their burning pit. Denver merely starred in a very bad sitcom on their way to perdition, and made a nice living from it, and we hope he died peacefully.