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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P. S. on 8/8/2009 at 4:00 a. m. John Hughes as Shakespeare; John Hughes as Tolstoy (MOGUL'S FRIEND, natch); John Hughes as Salinger (WESLEY, who will soon acquire A. O.'s spot among moVEE cri-TICS) -- okay, John Hughes as LUKE SPIELBERG. That's my choice. (And that's a quote from Dick "SYNERGY" Corliss, whose six-graf platitude begins with this fatuous line: "Does any current teen out there know who John Hughes was? Anyone? Anyone?" NUF SAID.)