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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Maybe she'll just say "good night." Katie Couric says about 50,000 people have sent her suggestions on how she should sign off each night's broadcast on the "CBS Evening News." She made the good-natured appeal for help with a new catch-phrase exit line on her first night of the broadcast last month.
She told David Letterman on CBS' "Late Show" Thursday that her favorite was "Here, kitty kitty kitty." [Editor's Note: Read more about the Katie Couric experience at CBS News and get this FREE Offer from NewsMax. Click Here Now!] [P. S. NOT from the ASSociated Press, we're sure.]
Another idea alluded to her 15-year stint as NBC's "Today" show host.
"Thanks for watching," she said. "I'm Katie Couric, and I'm not just for breakfast anymore."
We could suggest sign-offs involving her advertisers, her boss, or her ratings, but those are probably already among the 50,000.