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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In a stunning epilogue to Sorkin’s original screenplay for “Charlie Wilson’s War,” the freewheeling congressman who helped the Afghan mujahedeen drive the Russians out of their homeland is relaxing at his Washington-area home several years after his covert op ended rather successfully.
Suddenly there’s a “BOOM,” and a “teeth-jarring explosion” is heard in the distance. Wilson runs out to his terrace, encountering a cloud of orange-black smoke — the Pentagon on fire.
His phone rings, and it’s his quirky CIA buddy who helped him with the Middle East mission, telling him to turn on the TV.
As the screen blacks out, the audience realizes it’s Sept. 11, 2001, and some of Wilson’s Islamic rebel allies in Afghanistan evolved into the terrorist group Al Qaeda.
Unfortunately, you won’t see this powerful ending in the new $75 million film version of “Charlie Wilson’s War,” starring Tom Hanks in the title role and opening nationwide on Friday.
It was dropped from the final 97-minute film, as was nearly a third of other scenes and dialogue found in the script’s original 143-page draft.
There are no overt, or even subtle, references to 9/11 anymore; the script’s dark tone has become much more upbeat.
Gosh, it must have been so tough for MR. SPAMALOT not to TELL THE TRUTH.
Anyone wanna GUE$$ why?