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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["Mancow"] Muller, Nyren said, was a polarizing figure on arrival in Chicago "and the ad community and even listeners never really forgot it," Nyren said. "I would have people call and they would say, `My ad just ran behind the porn star from California who's running for governor.'"
Honest, we'd have thought most of the good fairies of advertising wouldn't have noticed -- or could have imagined it a VIRTUE.
"You certainly like synergy, but Howard had very little synergy on almost every station he was on," Gehron said.
The late KING OF ALL THE UNIVERSE'S MEDIA had his own exclusive kingdom? Well!