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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Reflecting on the cavalcade of vintage ads from last night I must now say Ford's Edsel was the worst thing to ever befall corporate America. In an age already surfeited with marketing hyperbole vast firepower went behind an otherwise blah product. The disconnect was immediate and obvious. The Edsel might have been a mere corporate blunder except that around this time Mad magazine started letting MadAve have it, and not long after the epochal intro the advertiser-greased quiz-show scandal broke. From then on we saw marketing as pure fraud, and because it was corporate America's first line of offense the guilt adhered by association. The Edsel is at the root of why we think American auto makers can no longer build good cars, evidence otherwise; more important it is at the root of our general inclination to disdain everything, which has damaged our nation's psyche in too many ways to fathom.