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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[I]t was supposed to be all so different. We were promised darkness. We were promised maturity.
But what we’ve got, is 163 minutes of tin-ear dialogue and absurd violence, capped with one of the most trouser-wiltingly laughable sex scenes since Nomi Malone went outboard motor in the Showgirls swimming pool.
We will not attempt a comment on that "maturity" gag (nor on the "darkness" gag, the movee biz these days being the blind leading the retarded), but we will say this: It sounds as if the comic-book geeks got exactly what they wanted -- and definitely what they deserved.
Now if only someone would make a movie pitting the SUPERVILLAIN SLIME against the SUPERVILLAIN MR. BEW-KES -- in a battle BOTH would lose.
P. S. NWSA and TWX closed for a grand total of $14.00 today -- far less than what either stock would have sold for ALONE a year ago. Good!
(A demerit for the fact that Robbie shows SLIMEDOM can take it, but even SLIME's craven hacks can sometimes tell the truth -- like the proverbial stopped clock.)