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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A great face has died. That is all one can say, and all that needs be said. You needn't even know the man's name to know it. That we do not have great faces anymore is why movies are better than ever. These great faces will be remembered when today's whatisits are forgotten, and beyond. Indeed, not to put too strong an emphasis on it, American movies taught painting and sculpture a thing or two about good looks, and they did them one better with movement and sound. The greatest faces were so blessed of their looks they didn't really have to know how to act, but most of them did, and quite well. That's why the best movies should be remembered, and the best faces too. But still, movies are better than ever.