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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That sense of discovery can be thrilling. The first time I experienced it as a critic -- as a very young and inexperienced second-string critic for the New York Herald Tribune in the early 1960s....
So let's see: Joe started reviewing when he was in his early twenties, straight from the usual Ivy League thinkatorium, no doubt. That means he was born circa 1940, or possibly earlier, and has been reviewing for about forty-five years. And the paper he started with went out of business in 1967.
When an ad-blurbist has been copywriting for forty-five years we wonder how he can have any sense period. And this guy admits getting a little giddy seeing his name above the title. Movie ad-blurbists are a big reason movies stink, and a big reason ad-blurbists stink is that many of them have written for forty-five years.