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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Which did not prevent news hacks and the effete snobs of movie ad-blurb writing from calling it a masterpiece, nor would it prevent other effete snobs from awarding it the universe's highest honor, the BEST-PIC-TYURE OS-CAR®.
Nor has it prevented the film from bombing at the box office.
What if they held an OS-CAR® ceremony and no one watched?
P. S. Meantime the hooey-writing CO-SCENARIST of the BEST-PIC-TYURE OS-CAR® WINNER complains, "DEY'RE TUWNING MY FILWM INTO A CAHWTOON! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!"
First off, your direc-TOR specializes in live-action Road Runners. Second, you should know what Harry Truman said: if you can't stand the heat, get out of the oven.