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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Before we neglect this, one half of the schmaltzy pop piano duo of Ferrante and Teicher has died, and lest anyone call that adjective an insult we note that Harry James was denigrated as schmaltzy, and what's more, their biggest hit was a 1960 revival of Charles Williams's "Jealous Lover", aka "Theme from The Apartment" (aka "The Key to Love" for the film sheet music), and it was memorable, glorious schmaltz, the sort that gave pop music flavor before it became all noise and attitude; and no one should denigrate the masses who made it a hit, for they were on to something.
And no, we didn't use that cover art to make fun of them; once upon a time pop had an intentional sense of humor.