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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Fifty-five years on, the Wyman and Hudson performances seem almost equally as studied and poised as those of Dunne and Taylor. What happened in the interim, of course, was the even greater revolution of Method acting. Already in the air in 1954 (the year of “On the Waterfront”), the Method would soon be established as the new standard of realism, consigning Hudson and Taylor alike to the dustbin of thespian history.
I can attest that Hudson’s performance earned howls of laughter at film society screenings in the mid- ’70s, at the moment when Robert De Niro and Al Pacino were scaling the Method heights. But if viewers feel less inclined to laugh at Hudson now, it may be because the cracks in the Method have begun to appear, and Mr. De Niro and Mr. Pacino (as in, for example, the recent “Righteous Kill”) themselves now seem mannered and quaint.
Believability, this fine set reminds us, is a constantly moving goal: it is no sooner reached than it recedes again.
As we say too often, and especially given the source, NUF SAID.