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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If there's one site we must read more often it's the Daily Mail's. Yes it's decidedly downmarket but interestingly so, almost the way American tabloids were. Today it has two stories: the first which, though perhaps overstating it, intimates the fairy tales about Walt Disney having his corpse frozen (FALSE) may yet have had a basis in fact -- and bad science fiction; and the second about a certain ac-TOR's photo shoot, which does make us sigh, yes, it's very good for an airbrush. (Gray-DON, natch.)
Caveat: It appears Chris Bickmore is to the British popular press what PAUL DRECK is to U. S. show-biz hacks.