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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If our extremely rough math is correct this means maybe these two zillionaire mouths got an audience of 16 to 17 million on Tuesday, or just over five percent of the population -- and that's probably overstating it as a lot of people sleep at that time even in TV households...or use their sets as night lights. (That 18-49 number for Ladies' Man seems to prove it.) And let us not forget these clods have seen a sudden population explosion, and when the headache is gone Ladies' Man and Jut-Jaw will go back to being sleeping pills.
This is the most preposterous story in recent show-biz memory, but one only has to look at the principals to see how it got that way.