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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David Thomson, in his pretentious mode, dispenses what lesser mortals might see as the kiss of death by likening Kate W. to Meryl. (He must also refer to her, USAOKAY!!!!! style, as an ac-TOR. Let us refer to Vivien Leigh or Danielle Darrieux as an ac-TOR. Do that, Dave.) He further suggests she (or is that he) must be an ac-TOR because (he supposes) she can wizen her size-11 feet for a role. Not finished with his amazement he believes she (or is that he) should play in comedies -- which not only ignores Meryl's brilliant comic career (quick! name a Meryl comedy! Mamma Mia! doesn't count except for unintentional) but somehow ignores the fact that today's "comedy" requires you to open all your orifices. Not such a brilliant idea, Dave.
And as if to completely prove his point,
[C]an she do comedy in the manner of Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyck or Katharine Hepburn?
Those three names would seem to answer that question.