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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Having read (or attempted to read) these "satires" of THE GREATEST SCREEN COMEDY OF ALL TIME we wonder just how great it was. Given that the ad-blurbists' idea of wit has included nearly every grossout comedy of the last four years we can especially question it. Yes, the razzing is based on jealousy; but yes it's likely to be based on WIDE-EYED ARM-WAVING ENTHUSIASM too. If these "satires" reflect the original we'd say in ten years the efforts of THE GREATEST STRIPPER WRITER OF ALL TIME will be as incomprehensible as the scribblings in the bowels of the Pyramids -- and at least they have archaeologists.
(Via the usual ArtsJournal)