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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At first, Vice was little more than a knock-off of Face, the influential British magazine. But it started finding its voice after 2000, when the staff moved to Williamsburg. There were breast-baring photo spreads by photographers like Richard Kern, and a Vice guide to anal sex. There were louche fashion spreads, but also “Jackass”-style columns like Gross Jar, which chronicled a large jar filled with detritus like used tampons and dead rats.
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Eventually, the magazine started to grow a social conscience. During the troop surge in Iraq in 2007, Vice published an issue written by Iraqi citizens — including an account by a woman who had been detained in Abu Ghraib with her son.
With luck, slob, the MEDIA TYCOON you'll eventually resemble won't be TOM FRESTON!!!!! (who, lest we forget, was fired by THE REAL BOSS SUMNER) but GARY PRUITT -- or PVT. ZELL.
OR:
CARLOS THE JACKASS! The wall! THE WALL!!!!!!!!!!
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