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 Gaza doesn't "matter" in Asia and Latin America, right Little Jon?
P. S. The film is apparently uber-PC, and we suspect that and the humanitarian's bad PR may have cost it the cover in the U. S.
P. P. S.
The film is based on the best-selling book of these events, written by Mariane and former NEWSWEEK editor Sarah Crichton.
Ohhhhhhhh, the fact it's based on a property written by someone who works for a rag with CAPITALS makes the difference. TRANSLATION: This is logrolling for synergy. A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD to SEAN!