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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Harder-headed we suspect than JonBoy, who decided his domestic coffee tables couldn't take a cover ode to gay rights, or whatever.
Today, we should note, we were in a Rong-Aid going through PEOPLE NEWSRAG, an old issue with Mother Teresa on the cover. (Remember that pretentious dust-up?) 66 pages, with a few columns. When we saw it we said, this rag's days are numbered. Face it: PEOPLE NEWSRAG is a Web site with a print stub. We hope and pray the same ultimately happens to Zeitgeist, but alas, it appears ST. WARREN's prepared to take losses when THE TRUTH is at stake.