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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Maybe because you snobs always inflict us with the same old tired "BOOKS."
To be sure, there were lots of zingers at this event: like the one from Mr. Prairie Home Companion:
“Most of us have stood in Barnes & Noble,” he said, “and opened a Harry Potter book and thought, ‘I could have done that. Why didn’t I do that?’ ”
Unfortunately, Garrison, most of you HAVE done that.
Imagining a time when the awards ceremony over which he presided last night would be called “The National Text Awards,” or “The National Content Awards,” Keillor declared himself proud to be a member of a generation known as “authors, rather than content-providers,” a joke that was first circulated at least five years ago.
You mean before THE EDWARD R. MURROW OF COMEDY and his 500 WRITERS issued their PICTURE BOOK?
And then, not on the program, there was this INSULT OF THE WEEK:
[A]s the crowd squeezed on to the narrow escalators in the Marriott Marquis, one silver-haired gentleman said to another, “Mailer? Only history majors read Mailer now.”
No comment regarding a man hoping for new "Dreiser[s] and Melville[s]."