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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Mr. Harman: I've known [Washington Post Co. Chairman] Don Graham for many years. A little more than once a year, he buzzes me to say, "How about breakfast?"
Totally coincidentally, Howard Fineman, a longtime writer for Newsweek, had said to me, "Are you aware that they're going to sell Newsweek?" And, "Hell, you ought to be interested."
I'd pretty much forgotten it. Don came over to the house for breakfast. We had a pleasant 90 minutes. I walked him to the car, he's getting into the car, and I said, "Son of a b----, [SIC! from SLIME'S FX-'N'-FAMILYGUYLAND!!!!!] aren't you going to ask me about Newsweek?" He stepped out of the car. "Are you interested?"
DOTTY SID'S HEIRS CAN SUE HOWARD FINEMAN!