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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Richard Kelly and Cherry Road Films are smelling what The Rock is cooking. The wrestling thespian (a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson) will star with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Seann [SIC] William Scott in the upcoming sci-fi thriller Southland Tales, with Kelly adapting from a series of 100-page graphic novels, which he will also pen, about the apocalyptic state of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008. The novels will be released over the six-month period leading up to the film release, which will cover the final three chapters of the series. Other cast members include Janeane Garofalo, Jason Lee, Amy Poehler and Kevin Smith. Bo Hyde, Sean McKittrick and Kendall Morgan will produce, and Moby and Trent Reznor will compose the music for the film.
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Platinum Studios joins the comic mix with another story of the deteriorating modern world, Dead of Night, which scribes Joshua Oppenheimer and Tom Donnelly will adapt from the Italian comic- and graphic-novel series Dylan Dog. First set up in December ’04, the story follows an ex-cop who must fight off the supernatural beings—vampires, werewolves and other odd creatures—that only he and a select few human beings can see. Aaron Severson, Jay Burns and Platinum’s Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will produce the project, which was purchased for mid-seven-figures. Ervin Rustemagic will executive produce....
Wouldn't it be better if our culture just ran of a cliff? Or is that what it's doing?