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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On the set of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," despite his reputation as Hollywood's most faithful husband, Levy relates, Newman had an affair for a year and a half with a journalist who was writing a puff piece on the movie: " 'I finally said to myself, 'I can do better than this,' she remembered. 'I told him, 'You're always drunk, and you can't even make love.' I ended it."
SECOND:
DORIS Day is alive and well in California, despite a tabloid report headlined: "Doris Day Tragedy: She's losing her memory & voice." In a note to Parade.com's Jeanne Wolf, the movie legend, 87, wrote, "Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! I'm fine. No, I'm great." Day guesses the story was based on the annual Monterey radio show she did earlier this month with call-ins from Tony Bennett, Charles Osgood, Chris Botti and Lesley Stahl. "I had a frog in my throat," Day admits. "My message is just be kind to your animals . . . and don't worry about me. Oh, yes, don't buy the tabloids either! With love always."
Somehow, I think they go together.