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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Until I saw this picture of one of the "winners" on this reality show I didn't know it's been on the air in one or another form for eighteen seasons. How can something be on the air eighteen seasons and not leave a mark? Ed Sullivan was on for more than two decades and he left a mark. Heck SNL, the partially embalmed corpse of satire, has been on for thirty-four years and we know of all its overdoses. Even Matt can say he's done licensing deals. But this? And the finale probably didn't draw more than four percent of America. When something can be on for eighteen seasons and so few notice it means 1. People are turning off television, however much they turn it on; and 2. The American Society of Willfully Ignorant Advertisers is virtually paying for NOTHING.