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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Since most likely StinkyInky.com won't run my comment, at least I can run it in my blog, complete with added links, on -- guess who:
We all daydream; some of us daydream more than others. But I'm not sure Steven X-Rea's kind of daydreaming has a place in a newspaper, especially one in bankruptcy. I just came off a 1,400-plus-word advertisement in USA Today for another movie, one whose controversial MPAA rating the rag's publicist deemed fit not to mention for obvious reasons, so I'm a little annoyed. And yes, not too long ago your particular MadAve type bylined himself with a middle initial X, the thought of which would be highly amusing but for his persistent ad copywriting. Truly Penelope's very drool provoking in her Victoria's Secret attire -- and more than one of the many critics damning this masterwork (current Rotten Tomatoes score: 49) likened it to a Victoria's Secret show, only a little less classy. But some press agents make very good salaries daydreaming, being friends of the stars and enemies of their readers. In the words of Frank Capra, it's a wonderful life being a PR man.
Say Mr. Tierney, how much has your pale imitation of a newspaper run on health-care reform? Or Afghanistan? That minor nuisance called the SEPTA strike came rather suddenly on you, dontcha think? Any word on what's happened to our mayor? (Well, you did a good job on Camden, but that was an accident.) Ah, but we have run 8 million pages on the Phitin' Phils, and 10 million pages on the Iggles, and we already have the hundred special sections set up for the Super Bowl -- heck, for the next World Series! -- and there's always a place for obsequious scribblers like Mr. X-Rea. Keep up the good work, Brian...and with luck there'll be no work left for anybody!
Had to do it again, even if it brings more PR0N hits.