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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I guess we'll have to come up with a new blurbmeister -- and a new nickname!
Unless of course our favorite blurbmeister's preserved his millions of contacts!
Then again we'd like to get a restraining order on all the hacks who quote him -- but that would require thousands of straitjackets.
P. S. on December 17 at 12:55 p.m. Exhibitor Relations is suing Paul Dreck for "misappropriating data", marching off with its customer list and "sabotaging...computer systems". In a word, you can't trust box-office numbers, and Paul Dreck is one of the worst for blowing his own horn.