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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If it weren't JACK, I'd say he has a case. Movie piracy does hurt "the little guy." But JACK didn't get where he is by being a little guy, and somebody like that anonymous brilliant actor named for a character in Tristram Shandy isn't a little guy, and every actress who fakes fornication before the cameras for an eight-digit fee isn't a little guy. The movie cretins evidence a sudden interest in "the little guy" only because their tax dodges could be depleted, and to provide flimsy cover for their infinite contempt of the filmgoing airheads. JACK's trade is bent on proving the old maxim, you get what you pay for, by providing a PRODUCT that isn't worth paying for, and the pirates have created a nice niche out of the biz' artistic bankruptcy. Yes, movie piracy is wrong, but with the biz defecating more masterworks than ever, it has at least a little bit of serves-you-right.
And here's predicting the ads get laughed at in the movie houses -- even by the dumb blind teens.