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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Among the more indelible lines in “Mere Anarchy” is this exchange, about a proposed musical on geniuses rattling around 19th-century Vienna:
“Freud unblocks Mahler so he can write again, and as a result Mahler triumphs over his lifelong fear of death.”
“How does Mahler triumph over his lifelong fear of death?”
“By dying. I figured it out — it’s really the only way.”
Or, as the levitating lecher named Max in “To Err Is Human — to Float, Divine” says to the blond “apparition with the state-of-the-art pout”:
“Here’s my address. I’ll be home tonight after eight. Drop in. I’ll have you off your feet in no time.”
Just as there's always be a New Yorker, there'll always be a PAPER OF RE-CORD.