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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Her steamy Sixties hit Je t'aime made Jane Birkin a sex icon for a whole generation, but now the British-born actress has admitted that she never liked the song.
In an unusually candid interview the 61-year-old has revealed that she felt used by her then husband, Serge Gainsbourg, the film director and artist who wrote the song for her - and that she would have far preferred a career as a nurse....
And for all her status as a sex goddess, the actress's own experience of the sexual revolution was far from liberating.
While [her first husband John] Barry worked in America, the pregnant Ms Birkin was left in Paris, where student protesters were rocking the city. "I waited for him with my huge stomach. That was my sexual revolution," she said.