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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Yes, we don't like celebrity fluff either; we suggest yet again that news hacks run such PR as advertorials (and in TV's case infomercials). That said, SLIME brings back the unpleasant memory of legions of NEWS HACKS fresh off their celebrations in South-Central happily trying to inspire riots by intimating whites thought O. J. guilty BECAUSE OF HIS (AND THE VICTIMS') RACE -- and LORD KOPPEL did a ten-month SPECIAL REPORT on race relations, which, translated, was a glorified justification for backing O. J. No, Paul, WE DO NOT MISS HIS LORDSHIP.
(Via the inevitable Romy)