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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On the first three DVDs alone you'll see Orson Welles* (yes, and singing and dancing, too), John Wayne*, James Stewart*, Frank Sinatra*, Peggy Lee*, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, Bob Hope*, Bob Newhart, Rosemary Clooney*, Roy Rogers* and Dale Evans* (who are mercilessly ridiculed by Don Rickles), Petula Clark, Paul Lynde*, George Gobel* and Buddy Hackett*.
Each asterisk (mine) equals dead, and if not one of them could be replaced, think of a whole generation (or several generations) of them. This is one of the many reasons show-biz NEWS HACKS get my dander up. Today's genius trumps this? Highly unlikely.
We miss ya, Dino.