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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We'd rather not intensify the practically total trend of people coming from Google Images but what struck us about this Daily Mail photo of the supposedly "gorgeous" progeny of the Geritol Rocker and his airhead Former Significant Other was the almost unanimously catty comments. You wonder if there's a parallel here with the health-care riots; people are told to think from above, and they resent it. This promotion contains a typical PEOPLE WARNER-like sell-it analogy, and the folks aren't buying it. We don't know who reads DailyMail.co.uk but obviously they know who Brigitte was. We were moved by those who mentioned her eyes; one said they "look dead, like a drug addict! There's no spark behind them, like the beautiful Brigitte's eyes. That makes all the difference, doesn't it?" Not if you're trying to sell a new Starlet of the Week. Yes, she is attractive, at least in this photo, but given the aping of and aching over BB we may wonder how.