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 hate to flog a horse that is not merely dead but was turned to glue long ago but where does this $80 million come from? From US, through the tax collectors called advertisers. And what has this money (plus the assorted other hundreds of millions in supposed production costs) gotten the advertisers? A deadly self-satire. Oh, they can say, the ratings have gone up. Letterman's ratings went up when he was noted as a ladies' man. This is hundreds of millions incinerated for sheer spectacle, and at least a 3D movie has CGI.
And this article delivers the double-whammy of bringing back Bill Zehme. If ever any writer auditioned to be the next Larry King, it's Bill. Why unearth the guy?