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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Another tiresome celeb story: It puzzles me how somebody with a non-face like this can become a name in show-biz. I guess he is an ac-TOR, like the guy in the Truman film. Most likely he got where he is due to good breaks and better publicity. To me he's another grade of Ben Affleck. The fairer sex should demand justice. Is there any film star a female can call sexy? I needn't say how we males fare; think of all the blather regarding this Kyra what's-her-name. She's too angular and too jut-jawed to be attractive, and she won't stay young much longer. Won't show-biz ever have memorable, desirable faces again?