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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BROADWAY seems resigned to the fact that this year's Tony telecast is going to be another dreary ratings loser.
A hostless telecast, as this year's will be, was tried in 1999 - with dire results.
Who can forget that chorus line of young-ish stars - Calista Flockhart, Scott "Party of Five" Wolf, Christian Slater - stumbling through the lyrics of "There's No Business Like Show Business"?
As comedian Lea DeLaria said later: "You don't know the words to 'There's No Business Like Show Business'? GET OFF THE STAGE!!"
Tony officials apparently were so embarrassed by their inability to line up a master of ceremonies that they waited until practically the dead of night to announce that they'll have 60 "star presenters" instead of one big-name host.
If they're lucky, maybe Oprah will throw them a bone and plug the Tonys on her show.