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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Some of those gags, many of which are lifted from the movie, are pretty funny. (O.K., let’s be honest: I laughed exactly three times.)
Don't get us wrong -- given the other not-so-rave reviews this is...well, not a BOMB, but not a great big capital-H hit either. We suspect the ad-blurbists are no so much downplaying this masterwork as they up-played the last one. And that show, despite hosannahs worthy of the Messiah coming, has all but vanished from the landscape. Now we understand why ELVIS! Sillerman's keeping the B. O. secret. Nonetheless we remember how Monty Python's Blazing Saddles is going and going, and the Branson East clientele is nothing if not indiscriminate. Still, we wonder if they're that indiscriminate.