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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That the press agents who make up the newspaper entertainment staffs have to resort to familiar names to sell the latest fantastic superstars says if they're half as brilliant as the press agents say they should not have to sell them this way. The deadly LIKE means in ten years people will have trouble knowing who they were. And I don't care how much LIKE Julie Andrews this brilliant new actress may be; so long as we have the real one on CDs and DVDs it will not do to have a mere copy. Indeed that Col.'s armies are so desperate to move their toilet paper in digital form that this morning they likened her to Doris Day in the EXACT SAME HOME-PAGE SPOT AS THIS LINK. It does no one any good to thusly inflate reputations, not least those of us who have no reason to buy show-biz' deathless visions as it is. I've said it a zillion times: the hacks' obsession with selling only underlines their obsession with spinning, and doubly confirms on the best of days they can be no better than dishonest.
(This post replaces an earlier one in which I assumed the New DorisDayJulieAndrews couldn't sing; her new megamasterpiece is some kind of "musical" -- as if something with "songs" by MR. WICKED can be musical.)