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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Enguhland's aw-shucks-we're-the-people paper the Daily Mail has posted this picture and others from a Web site devoted to Photoshop manipulation (and which it's very careful to misidentify) whose denizens engaged in a "contest" to devise a new Hollywood femme fatale, and of course (if we're to judge from the other entries) they all look a bit weird. Perhaps that's why pixel celebs in movies won't work; they're human like a Scientologist. But aside from the compulsion many have for idle mouse clicking said contest points to the lack of true media femme fatales, which helps explain why going to the movies isn't a mandatory behavior anymore.