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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When do the news hairshirts start complaining he shouldn't be doing entertainment?
An apt choice, though: the emcee -- ANCHORMAN of a CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED NEWS SHOW with a small audience doing an award show for CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED MOVIES with small audiences.
And can anyone imagine if THE KNIGHTING OF ST. EDWARD won the coveted BEST-PICTURE AWARD? The ED of comedy would be working on his.
Let's hope he pulls the same Peabody®-Award winning job he pulled on the rag publishers.
The new host will also use some of his own "Daily Show" writers to help with material.
TRANSLATION: They're reserving a hundred rooms in the Beverly Hilton. If they won the Emmy® they'd have to devote half the program to his writers.