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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Fifty years ago tomorrow, the same network unveiled another classic: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."
Okay guy: you're on my list because when you worked for the INKYDINKYDOODOO you said WE'RE LIVING IN A PLATINUM AGE OF TELEVISION -- TWICE. WHY IS TV BETTER THAN EVER?
Well, if it's any solace Platinum, THIS MONTH MARKS THE THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SNL. Oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
And speaking of THIRTY:
David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975.
Thirty years a TV ad-blurbist. There in a nutshell is what's wrong with THE NEWS BIZ.