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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$1.25 million worth of genius in "publishing":
"You can’t underestimate the market out there for people who love animals," said Karen Kosztolnyik, the senior editor at Grand Central who will "edit" the "book." [Last two pair of quotation marks added]
You can't underestimate the intelligence of all the people who'll strike a match to their dough for sentimental twaddle that transmogrifies ugly pets into tiny lovable humans, nor can we overestimate the self-regard of the MENSA-IQ idiots who print it only to scream about the lack of new good books.
"The problem is that even as the biggest best sellers sell more copies, there are fewer of them, so the publishers paying these advances do so at increasing risk."
Risk? We're in the same league as Maxwell Perkins running This Side of Paradise!
Pfffffffffffffffffffffffft!