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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Here we thought SUPERADAM! was growing up last week but evidently he's campaigning for another twenty elephants -- uh, National Magazine Awards again. Look SUPER, you don't have to tell us SARAH!!!!! is screwy, but after you're through you think why does she cause mass bigmedia psychosis? (It appears John is also stroking HONORARY MAYOR MIKE's repeatedly stroked ego. Will You run for president, dammit?) Plus he gives us six pages and 4,566 WORDS on the unrequited love of SID and TINA!!!!! -- something we summed up in one line. Where's OUR National Magazine Award?
By the way, ASME, are you sure the award should really be a symbol of POLITICAL EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL?