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 sorry to learn Merv Griffin has died. We cannot help imagining the man without thinking he had a good dose of the fool to him: the man who pioneered French-kissing on the screen, who seemed to laugh at anything and everything the guests on his talk show said, the inventor of those two geek games par excellence, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, the very man almost a self-caricature -- say that about him, but the man had a lot of fun in his life, a real gusto, and he communicated it almost (as the cliché goes) infectiously, and he got very rich as a result, and we're much poorer without people like that.
He reminds us too we still miss Arthur Treacher. Heck we miss Mort Lindsey.
P. S. at 5:50 p.m. Pat Sajak has it down exactly right. (Via MS. TRAVERS, oh well)