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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That WONDERFUL press release comes as the ill-begotten revival of Gypsy posts a closing notice after losing roughly half of its $8 million cap. I roll my eyes as it's de facto become some sort of GAY musical thanks to Mama Rose (and the title character too), quite unfortunate as it's a first-class show about a stripper's rise to stardom, and in Gypsy's day, stripping was a HETERO thing.
Did anybody other than John Simon note that the Divine Miss P. has a striking facial resemblance to the Ethereal Miss L.? I should like to have seen her as GYPSY, not Mama Rose.