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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Somewhat reluctantly we must post this picture of one of the women (a mug shot!) because as my three readers will know a number of the most notorious cases of statutory rape have involved lookers, which compounds the tragedies. I doubt the woman could act but with just a little makeup tweaking (i.e., the slightly-off-center eyebrows) such a face is ready for Hollywood and far superior to most of those ac-TORS' we've seen -- certainly better than another Jennifer's; I cannot get it out of my head. There but for the grace of God.... (For what it's worth, however, in other pictures her hair isn't streaked and she isn't anywhere near this good-looking.)