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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The closest the film gets to making [a joke] is when Hobie is moved by his luck in going home with the nymphomaniac to direct his eyes heavenwards and mutter: "I'll never vote against school prayer again." Though nearer the mark than most of the film's attempts at humor, even this is slightly off target. No one will ever again vote against school prayer -- or for it either -- since no one is given the chance to vote on what some judge has decided is unconstitutional.
If this incompetent gag made it here, and how many likewise incompetent gags have made into the MASTER's other works of art? As THE HIGH-SCHOOL REVUE proves, comedy is NOT funny.
This will be the last I mention the WOODSTER for three months, when his next movie comes out.