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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A vivid example of the smashing of the news-entertainment barrier occurred this month when Hardball host Chris Matthews appeared on an episode of NBC’s The West Wing and “interviewed” Alan Alda, the actor who portrayed "Hawkeye" Pierce on M*A*S*H and now plays a presidential candidate....Anyone who tuned in for a few moments halfway through the Oct. 9 episode may have been momentarily duped into believing Hawkeye was running for the White House for real.
More than a half-century ago the sainted C-uh-B-uh-S did a TV "mockumentary" series called YOU ARE THERE. HHHWWWALTER CRRRONKITE appeared on it. So did ST. MICHAEL of WALLACE.
SO DID ST. EDWARD OF MURROW.