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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This is the first time in the history of the Oscars® we've gotten a single-digit rating! HA HA HA!!!!!
Well, not likely. But we may be getting there!
P. S. I wonder if the less-than-honest proprietors of the Golden Globs were making "a statement" against CGI. Perhaps they subconsciously recognize that today's "popular" masterworks are in bed with the overblown theatrical spectacles of the 19th and early 20th centuries which have disappeared without a trace. (Anyone for reviving the original stage version of The Wizard of Oz?) But in doing so they made another statement: that the Dorky Denbys and Effete Edelsteins of ci-ne-ma reviewing, with their flowery lockstep and their insightful conformity, now rule over movie making, with the consequence that as CGI becomes irrelevant through its constant MORE, so the ad-blurbists' kind of movie becomes irrelevant by never attracting an audience outside the places where the elite gather to masturbate.