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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We are surprised this wasn't a con-SER-va-tive TV show. Politics notwithstanding it is now obvious CRI-TI-CAL ACCLAMATION has become the SCARLET LETTER OF APPROVAL. With their knee-jerk artsy-fartsy the ad-blurbists have become the most single-minded and conformist of all the hacks, and the public senses it. Most likely this masterwork suffered from the time period, but it also got the SCARLET LETTER OF APPROVAL. So did the TWXSTERS' snakes stunt, which we'd argue suffered from the last-second raves almost as much as from its lack of an audience. The thorough dismissal of AARON SORKIN IS EINSTEIN is a glaring example. We can't even say the blurbists say stupid things smartly; with their psuedo-Kaelism and obfuscations they are among the stupidest.