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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[N]umerous [ad-blurbists -- they do NOT deserve to be called CRITICS] heralded a new golden age as far back as the '70s, when classic comedies including "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "All in the Family" and "M*A*S*H" dominated the airwaves. In the '80s, the arrival of dramas like "Hill Street Blues," with its complex narrative structure, ushered in yet another golden age. [Ad-blurbists] also made a compelling case in the '90s, citing such shows as "The Simpsons" (which debuted in December 1989), "Seinfeld" and "E.R."
Well there's a simple reason for that: TV KEEPS GETTING BETTER!!
So here we are in another golden age -- such exemplars of REPORTORIAL EXCELLENCE as "Entertainment Weekly [and] the Washington Times" say so! So here comes some hack named Matt from something called TV Guide, itself in a TIN age, and what does he say (conveniently late in the article)?
"[T]he shows that tend to get the best reviews tend to get the smallest audiences, and even the ones that are popular aren't culturally resonant."
REPEAT: FIRE THE AD-BLURBISTS!!!!!