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.
PERMALINKS:
THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY
THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY
AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE!
Blogroll Me!
![[Powered by Blogger]](http://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif){kind=small}
We are sorry to learn that Charlton Heston has died. He was a link between the golden age and the SUPERMEGAPLATINUM AGE that is our own, starring in the big CinemaScope Biblical epics that drew hordes into the drive-ins while the industry marked time, preparing to make Bonnie and Clyde and works of true genius that chased mere moviegoers away. (He also made a few high-profile clunkers in the VALENTI Era, but that's a price to pay for encouraging genius.) Later of course he headed the NRA, and whatever you think of that august body he never did back down from it. He is thought to have had Alzheimer's, just as Ronald Reagan did, and now he is free from an awful disease.