Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Front page



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.

PERMALINKS:

THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY

THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY

AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE!

Blogroll Me!

[Powered by Blogger]

Monday, January 27, 2003

Posted 12:14 PM by Gene

Peter Bart has given the movie-ad-blurb copywriters a mid-life crisis. He exposed them for what manically impatient readers knew them as already: Nose-in-the-airs at best, paid flacks without the pay at worst. (Well, if you don't count their regular pay, which can be very good indeed.) Michael Wilmington, a pretentious Paulette with the Trib (and heir to the multi-millionaire Disney flack Gene Siskel), isn't going to praise "commercial" movies because -- they're commercial! That quality always takes precedence over quality. And quality can only be found in pictures that play the "Ougadougou Film Festival." It never occurs to these scribblers that both kinds of films can be bad -- in different ways. The problem is, many of the same copywriters now donning the hair shirts praised Spiderman as an apex of cinema. These morons want it both ways -- and being news hacks, they get it.

Home
Site Meter eXTReMe Tracker