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 very sorry to see that Art Buchwald has died. He was a very funny man. It might not seem so on the basis of his columns of the last few decades, but back in the mid-sixties he recorded a Capitol album before an audience at Georgetown, and though the material is dated he had an insouciance and a gravelly voice that even today could provoke mirth. I wonder if his real calling wasn't stand-up comedy. His last year shows us a "dying" man can have more fight and joie de vivre than most healthy people, and we are sad he somehow didn't beat the odds a little longer, but his bravery is an example for us all. God bless you, Mr. Buchwald, and we hope you know many smiles.