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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RENDELLISM: Classic RENDELLISTS think AHT will save the world -- or at least their urban precincts. So the town fathers of Manchester built this starburst. And one can see the excitement -- in this photo anyway it's a truly stunning thing. (It's not so hot looking, however, in the day.) But RENDELLISTS being what they are they never figured that a 180-TON SCULPTURE might develop crotchets, especially in -- how do we say this? -- WEATHER. And something like this was NOT going to defy physics. With so many pieces falling off the citizens should count themselves lucky nobody got impaled by a muse. And of course it was WAY over budget. Now Manchester has reached a settlement with the AHTIST, which will not change the fact that the town fathers were alone responsible in putting aside their sense to get their city in the papers -- and their brainstorm will most likely have to be demolished anyway. That is the DOWNSIDE of RENDELLISM, a downside as costly as Taj Mahal stadiums and white-elephant convention centers -- even if it is sexier.
(Times link via the usual ArtsJournal)