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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The dialogue is dumb, but that sparks audience participation, which is part of the show. Guess which lines are in the script and which ones were contributed by viewers at the AMC Empire Thursday night:
1) "You're a sick f- - -, aren't you?"
2) "Dumbass!"
3) "Kill that motherf- - - er!"
4) "Be careful!"
5) "Shoot him!"
6) "This guy is really bleedin'!"
7) "Tell them that you didn't do it!"
Nos. 1, 4, 6 and 7 are the work of professional screenwriters. [We would NEVER have guessed. --ED.] The best line I heard all night, though, was from the audience. When the lovers go to a motel and watch "The Birds" on TV, a guy yelled, "Better movie!"
'TAIN'T FUNNY, McGEE.
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