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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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Posted
6:28 AM
by Gene
Several days after having a fierce chuckle with DR. EVIL at a high-powered confab -- at our expense, no doubt -- Dave Geffen confides:
"The live-action film business is not a great business," Geffen complained. "If you aren't a back-end user - if you don't own HBO or TNT or something like that - it's very, very hard to rationalize the expense of making a movie. More than half the movies made - considerably more - lose money."...
"Today, the animation company has a market cap of over $4 billion and the whole company has a market cap of well over $5 billion. [Wall Street seems to have taken care of some of THAT. --ED.] The animation business is infinitely more profitable than the live-action business. [Growth] has to come in animation."
So what the heck is Geffen doing in live action anyway?
"Hoping to have a hit," he said. "It's very expensive to make movies. And if you make a mistake, you lose a lot of money."
Tell that to your SHAREHOLDERS.
