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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Here’s some advice from Los Angeles for the new year: do not, under any circumstances, go and see Brad Pitt’s new movie, Babel, when it reaches British cinemas on January 5. Babel is currently leading the Golden Globe nominations — thus making it a contender for Best Picture at the Oscars in February. There’s no sane reason for this, because Babel is so boring it made me want to hunt down the man responsible for the film’s windswept ethnic guitar soundtrack and smash the aforementioned windswept ethnic guitar over his head....
Which brings me to Borat. Ironically, this film — about the world’s perception of America, America’s perception of the world, and the unwillingness of otherwise well-meaning people to speak up against racism — was more intelligent (and stimulated more debate) than any of Pitt’s Tower of Babel nonsense. Not that I would give Borat the Oscar for that reason. No, it deserves to win because it was so funny that half the audience during my screening were on the floor blahblahblah....
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A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD (U. K. DIVISION) TO CHRIS!