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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Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a Hollywood like the one in the '70s that made room for movies like Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show" and Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets" — films that dealt with people and their lives in an involving, illuminating fashion instead of pictures that rely primarily on fancy hardware and special effects, boosted by great dollops of gratuitous violence?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if AD-BLURB COPYWRITERS like Kev, who aren't satisfied if a movie isn't DARK and EDGY, who go to bed every night with their DOG-EARED COPIES OF PETER BISKIND at their sides like TEDDY BEARS, who loved Taxi Driver because it inspired John Hinck -- because it was a DARK and EDGY MASTERPIECE, who've praised great dollops of gratuitous violence to the heavens -- wouldn't it be wonderful if such people just
SHUT UP?