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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Look at the chart below. In the premiere week of THE GREATEST SEASON IN TELEVISION HISTORY only three shows had more than 20 million viewers aged 2+, and none received more than fifteen percent of total households. Even if 60 million watched network TV that week it means 240 MILLION DIDN'T, and for very good reasons. No, it's not a race to see who finishes first, it's a race to see who can avoid being LAST.
I HATE CHEERLEADERS! (Except the high-school and collegiate girl kind.)
P. S. at 5:20 p.m. It's official: "Critically-acclaimed" has a SMELL.