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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Fundamentally, though, this strike holds no terrors for the British nation, which has survived for more than 30 years on just 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers. We’ll get through this one way or another. In any case, many of us haven’t even finished watching the DVDs of Sex and the City, let alone 24 or Desperate Housewives. Far from being a cause for alarm, the strike may give us an opportunity to catch up.
The strike may not last anyway, not now that California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, claims to be on the case. (Mr Schwarzenegger is reported to have some Hollywood experience.) If it does last, look for the real crunch not this winter but in the summer film movie season of 2040, when there will be a dearth of old TV shows to recycle.
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