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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Cameron Diaz introduced a montage of clips from Martin Scorsese's The Departed. Her big, red mouth slipped around rather much. She lingered on the words taxi and driver with unseemly lubricity. "Is she drunk?" I wondered aloud. "Wasted," ventured the guest. Warren Beatty, receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement, promised to make another movie. After watching Scorsese pick up his trophy for directing The Departed, I decided that the movie should be a chamber piece starring Beatty as Nixon and Scorsese as Kissinger, set in the summer of '73.
And BEAUTY:
Reese Witherspoon strode out in severe bangs and a canary-yellow strapless number, and the guest said, "She's so hot!" A few seconds later, having gotten a second, third, and fourth look, the guest had taken a more nuanced view: "She's disgusting!"
And STYLE:
Onward: a viciously suave Sacha Baron Cohen; a depressingly vague Forest Whitaker; Philip Seymour Hoffman wearing a bushy mustache and a neon-blue tie, resembling a walrus dressed as a vice cop from Miami.
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