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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This is not in GOOP territory but it must have taken a lot of physical excruciation to get there; and that is why, great though her figure is, it cannot be for us men an unalloyed pleasure.
Nevertheless the sight of Valerie in her bikini -- we hope reasonably truthful -- rather comprehensively takes care of that scene in Tennessee Williams's tony mellerdrammer A Streetcar Named Desire in which one of the slobs subjects his girlfriend or whatever to a harsh light, as though at a police interrrogation, and finds every last crow's foot on her face -- even though the woman is only, what, 30? To which we say, a baby under a harsh light would look bad, and there is nothing wrong with middle-aged women trying to look good, and there is no reason a middle-aged woman can't look reasonably sexy -- indeed we'd say too many folks look like such slobs that this sort of self-improvement should be richly encouraged.
(Via Yahoo!; originally posted 5:28 p. m.)