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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And now it's added lip-synching to the repertory. Just like American Bandstand. Wonderful.
P. S. Next year this month the alleged comedy revue will have been on the air thirty years. The IDIOT Jeff Greenfield wrote a gushing rave for New York its very first month, and that's what kept it going. He deserves a huge chunk of the royalties -- and the blame.
I guess I'm depressed because I just got through listening to Hoagy Carmichael singing and playing "Stardust." He wrote that song 77 years ago (he was STILL ALIVE through SNL's FIRST SEVEN SEASONS!!!!!), and it's forever. Can't our age do anything but break wind violently and laugh at it?
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE COKEHEAD JOHN BELUSHI?