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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Speaking of movies, it is wonderful news that so many lost silent films have been found, which raises the hope many more can be found, most likely in the lairs of the "eccentrics" who seemed to be the only people who cared for them.
One silent film can put a whole million-acre plot of TENTPOLES to shame.
That's Clara Bow and Ethel Shannon in Maytime, from 1923. "This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic." Checked!
P. S. The "It" Girl reminds us tentpoles aren't a recent thing. Back in 1924 an instructor at Brown named Percy Marks wrote a novel called The Plastic Age, chronicling the debauchery at a school not much unlike it; he was kicked off the campus even as the book became a best seller of the decade. The next year Miss Bow starred with Donald Keith in a film adaptation, alleged to be "wildly successful". Needless to say novel and film are completely forgotten. I've read the novel. In the words of THE MASTER, "It has not vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction."
(First link via AHTSJournal)