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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"To me, the whole enterprise was a sad piece of business....The only good news was that I was damn glad it was over. It was a bitch."
OOOH, Second Coming uttered two naughty words! Rate Him PG-13: Pretty Ghastly with a 13 IQ.
No. 3,372 at Amazon.com, with hearty condolences from two close friends. No. 12,085 at Barnes & Noble. Hit the road, Jack!
P. S. Two posthumous blurbs:
It's true that Valenti became something of a national joke when he publicly declared that he slept a little better every night knowing LBJ was in the White House, but, hey, that was Jack....Yes, he tossed out the old, absurdly onerous previous system of movie censorship, replacing it with the ostensibly more democratic ratings board. But he does not acknowledge the deviousness of the way in which that board works or how in practice — as opposed to defensible theory — it works to keep American moviegoing in a state of permanently arrested adolescence.
--DICK SCHICK
To paraphrase Shakespeare (a Valenti idol), there's too much blather signifying nothing.
--Tim Purtell, EW!!!!!
Idol? Friend!