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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Sex is a subject best avoided altogether, says Melissa Katsoulis, a literary reviewer for the Times.
"If I was writing a novel, I wouldn't attempt to write it except in the most Victorian and prim way, because it's awful.
"It's a cliche, but the moments of genuine frisson in books are when hardly anything happens.
"When you have a dream about someone you fancy, it's because they sat down next to you on the bus or something, not because you were at it, hammer and tongs.
"Either be suggestive or funny, but trying to do the nuts and bolts isn't going to work."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEN!!!!!
P. S. at 5:28 p. m.
It doesn't take much nerve to stand up in front of a boozy crowd and read sex passages from other people's books in a mocking tone of voice while everybody sneers and groans.
It doesn't take much nerve to wave your MFA or bestseller in front of a boozy or sober crowd while yelling of thousand-foot pylons and impenetrable jungle thatches.
(Both via NEWSER!)