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 don't know much about Anna Nicole Smith's life, apart from what the sleazy celebrity magazines tell me. But I don't need to know the details. It's simple, really:
1. Sex tends to make people stupid.
2. Stupid people tend to break down good order.
3. Smith was very sexy.
4. Smith was very stupid.
5. Smith was very lucky.
6. Smith lacked the cultural safeguards (religion, ethics, etc.) to limit the damage from 3), 4) and 5).
You don't need to be John Calvin to see that Smith's life and death were predestined to wreak havoc.