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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How odd that two days before THE FOOTBALL GAME THAT CURES ALL DISEASES our favorite animation Web site (and this we mean unironically) posts some ads from the mid-thirties Collier's, like this one with art by William Steig -- each far more effective in the sales pitch than a whole battery of SUPER BORE ADS, whatever GanNETt says.
Odd too that our favorite book reviewer (and this we also mean unironically) writes about the notorious doc named Brinkley with a million-watt station in Mexico, who certainly pioneered in curing people -- of their money, and their health. Rather like professional football.
(He also writes a touching article about the dachshund he had to put down, necessary reading for anyone with a dog, or cat, or a goldfish, for that matter.)
Is it us or does the fellow vaguely resemble Cole Porter?