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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Since 2000, the number of visitors to the city has grown by 21 percent to 25.5 million, said Meryl Levitz, president and chief executive of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp.
Looking up this outfit's Web page I found something one step removed from the teen-oriented sites that inflict pop-up ads on you. Googling the number led me to this PRESS RELEASE from our DISINTERESTED TOURISM BOARD that apparently defines Philadelphia as FIVE COUNTIES and involves at least TWO CONSULTANTS and a RESEARCH FIRM, providing MUCHO opportunity for inventing figures. Indeed our tourism board seems to have spent so much time stroking numbers it's hard to believe ANY of them.
In short, those who must depend on CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES for even STRAIGHT FACTS must TEAR THEIR HAIR OUT.