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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P. S. Push a button near a statue of Bert Parks outside the Miss, er, Vegas Pageant's headquarters and it sings "There She Is." Push a button on something called a Weinert and it fraaaaaaaps:
"Losing an institution like Miss America could enhance the perception among some people that Atlantic City is a loser. At the same time, ATLANTIC CITY IS PROGRESSING IN BIG STRIDES TOWARD BECOMING A YOUNGER, HIPPER, COOLER DESTINATION!!!!!!!!!! IT COULD BE ARGUED THAT SHEDDING WHAT MANY SEE AS AN OUTDATED INSTITUTION COULD ACTUALLY BOOST ATLANTIC CITY'S EMERGING IMAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Vegas is merely AC with PR.