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 HPFA [Does that not sound like an acronym for a federal hospital agency or what? --ED.] gives separate awards in several categories for comedies and musicals, and the best picture list here is almost as strange.
There are actually a couple of mainstream movies here, though one of them, the ungainly movie version of the Broadway hit "The Producers," is surely among the very worst major movies turned out by Hollywood this year.
And considering the level of Hollywood's genius THAT is the equivalent of challenging a man to a duel.
He's also badmouthing THE GAY COWBOYS. This will be a GREAT year for the OSCARS®!
P. S. With deepest apologies to the great Johnny Mercer, I've come up with the first two lines of a great lyric:
I'm a gay cowhand
From the movie land.
I only wish I could come up with the rest. Maybe it's just as well.