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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YaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY TEAM!!!!!
Rance, SHUT UP.
And now the American Society of Willfully Ignorant Advertisers has a new buzz-phrase excuse: "LIVE WITH THE WASTE." These same companies that fire innocent working people right and left will shred hundreds of millions so their top execs can SCHMOOZE. What MORONS.
A Neuharthism of the Week Award to Claire! RAH! RAH!
P. S. 300 million (current U. S. population, rounded to the nearest million) minus the "42.3 million who showed up for premiere week" equals 257.7 million who DID NOT. Only 14.1 PERCENT of our POPULATION bowed before the networks. Why must these TV S&M PHREAKS rule the planet?
P. P. S.
Broadcasters invested more in their new shows, and that's attracted more than just viewers. Bigger-name talent is now more willing to work for the networks. At the TV critics' annual press tour in Pasadena, Calif., this summer, many stars enthused about how happy they were working for the risk-taking broadcast networks rather than toiling on any of the narrow range of vanilla movie scripts offered by Hollywood.
The big budgets could be a boon for viewers, considering the level of creativity, talent and special effects this money can buy. Storytelling devices once reserved for the cinema have come en masse to the small screen.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS -- unless you're a NEWS HACK.