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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I am not impressed. That means 23% of the tickets are being sold to something else. It always happens when there's an overpublicized bore on the market. This is not the sign of a healthy business.
A couple of hours later, after the film's red-carpet premiere, the cast was given a standing ovation by audience members who seemed to have enjoyed themselves.
And so did the millions who made what by all accounts is the worst-written smash book of all time a success.
Which reminds me -- it was the bofferroo book biz that made a super-duper hit out of James "I Lied -- A Little" Frey and The Serial Plagiarist. It's not in a position to be a cultural arbiter either.