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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George Steinbrenner, the Boss Tweed of baseball, who did more than his share to price the sport out of most fans' reach and shook down the taxpayers with the best of them, and thus made BOO!!!!! HISS!!!!! a part of their permanent lexicon, has died. Now he can meet up with Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, wherever they are -- and maybe even Boss Tweed himself.
P. S. at 2:19 p. m. Happily FORBESLIST looks on the bright side:
Steinbrenner Got A 33900% [SIC!] Cumulative Return On His Yankee Investment
Why couldn't IT fold?