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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The Hollywood movies that dominated the mid-1980s consisted of titles like Porky's Revenge. The 1970s had seen a flurry of GREATNESS, when directors like Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman had briefly usurped power from the studios, but in the following decade American film became something of a wasteland. The studios had regained control and began to churn out an endless stream of sex comedies.
FORTUNATELY (we're talking Robert Redford's "BLOATED, DECADENT" film festival -- at least that's what the typically misleading home-page link says)...
[T]he Sundance program gradually improved as the films became riskier, more adventurous. Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs played three years after sex, lies, and videotape, and The Usual Suspects played three years after that.
So -- despite running an "ad campaign" now, Bob put his heart in the right place...and MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER!!!!!