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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Maybe one reason sitcoms have declined in popularity is that they tend to be so sitcommy. The people in sitcoms all speak sitcomese, all act the same, do variations on the same dozen-or-so jokes, even look cut from the same catalogue.
So what does GE BANCORP and REALTY NETWORK do? Unveil another sitcommy sitcom! And it's a doozy:
Preview tapes of "Four Kings" were, as often happens with rough cuts sent to critics, in pretty bad shape. Many scenes looked murky and chronically underlit. And yet they actually weren't dark enough -- because I could still see the actors. The soundtrack was defective, too, because I could hear the -- for lack of a better word -- "jokes."
We know the feeling -- and we don't even have a TV set.