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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One argument against ridiculing 20-UK-Top-Ten singles disgorgers like this (who got a big photo here to justify a thumbsucker about feminism) is that most people aren't 21. When Audrey posed with her telephone you can bet a lot of the Life fans were young -- and other ages too. So our pop tart's been a favorite of Maxim. That is dubious enough without knowing movie stars once made the cover of newsrags when it was an honor. (This peculiar Johnny Mercer-Bernie Hanighen song shows just how strong that allure was. And yes, there was a Look magazine, and yes, it was almost as popular as Life.) True sex symbols warrant a publicity apparatus, and all today's fly-by-night sensations deserve is the Wiki and MTV, and a recording contract, and that's only one reason they won't last.
P. S. I have that cover in my hard drive, but this is better.