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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Winslet is always an actor to watch
News hacks HATE the English language. They have reason -- we'd guess most of them flunked it in high-school and college. What is wrong with "actress"? This comes from the same school of illiterates that gave us the DISINTERESTED North Korea and the con-SER-va-tive buffoons who MUST use DEMOCRAT as an ADJECTIVE. It is bad enough when the hacks spit on the truth; worse is when they spit on the truth and piddle on the language.
I sent two e-mails of complaint to USAOKAY!!!!!, which were trashed in 26 milliseconds.