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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Really, a lot of folks were born yesterday. LNO's first allegiance for years has been to show-biz. Anybody who's been in show-biz as long as LNO has is certain to absorb its prejudices like a sponge, or by osmosis. Clearly LNO has liked what he's absorbed. Indubitably one of the things he absorbed is the notion Elvis should be subject to "due process." Though he's good at pulling the grouchy-bulldog man-of-the-pee-PUL routine LNO is an actor, and he is obviously very contented, which means we can't doubt enough he'd be a very good president.