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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Not too long ago we oohed an aahed over this HIP! HOT! new apartment complex that looks like an East German housing project, right smack in a HIP! HOT! neighborhood that still looks like an industrial zone despite all the trendies. About two weeks ago there was a double-murder inside said masterpiece, and it now emerges one of the victims was rather seriously in the drug trade. Now if we know the kind of HIP! HOT! airheads who live in such places we'd say this double-murder has landed it a new -- CACHET. I mean, how many double-murders of affluent drug dealers have YOU ever rubbed elbows with? Meantime, the neighborhood still looks like an industrial zone.