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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[Amy Pascal, who inflicts a no-doubt triple-type-A personality on us running Sony Pictures,] predicted that "Bewitched," a romantic comedy about a producer who unwittingly hires a "real" witch for the lead role in a remake of the television show, would have a broad appeal. "If it was a straight-ahead remake of the show," she said, "we would have been guilty of doing the ordinary."
Does that mean the husband's GAY? Dick Sargent was. That counts as NEW THINKING in Hollywood.
And since this dictation taker was able to quote this type-triple-A type with a straight face, we give her -- A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD!
BERNIE WEINRAUB LIVES!!!!! (I forgot -- that's AMY PASCAL'S HUSBAND. How much interviewing got done -- and how much REMINISCING?)