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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For all the doom and gloom and ennui it sure looks busy at BookExpo. And why shouldn't it be? Book publishers aren't about publishing books; they're about promotions and line extensions and product placements and electronic googaws -- anything except books...and certainly anything except good books. If we didn't have hacks and stats we'd have hardly known the business of creating millions of remainders was in such dire trouble; we suspect they wouldn't have known it on the floor but for priming themselves with talk of gloom. Given its output lately the biz deserves a big heap of gloom; yet we're certain even the gloom hasn't stopped these clowns from thinking very highly of themselves, and a little less so of the people who buy their pulp.