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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Correct me if I'm wrong, those who were there, but here's what I recorded as the sum total of her between-song banter:
After "Up n' Down," a "bonus track" off her "Femme Fatale" album: "What's up, Charlotte?" (Crowd goes wild.)
After "Big Fat Bass," also off "Femme Fatale": "What's up, Charlotte?" (Woo-hoo, fans yell in unison.)
After her 2001 hit "I'm a Slave 4 U": "Are you guys ready for some more?" (More screaming.)
After 2008's "Womanizer": "Thank you so much, Charlotte!" (You're welcome.)
And after her current smash hit, "Till the World Ends": "Good night, everyone!"
TRANSLATION: The public is plainly so way ahead of the hacks the hacks can write as they please.
P. S. MNI at $1.55. It was $5.55 on January 18. It was $74.80 on March 18, 2005.