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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Hollywood Economist: Onscreen Nudity Drops
Alex Chadwick talks with Edward J. Epstein about the decline of sexual nudity in films over the last few decades. Epstein says film studios are being pressured by the DVD and television markets to offer less salacious films. Listen to the segment.
We may assume our HONORARY PAUL DRECK, being also an honorary ad-blurb copywriter (as most of the thumbsucker-writers of SHOW BIZ are) thinks this a BAD thing; government, censorship blahblahblah. (We have no intention to listen to the segment.) While the number of HEROIC R movies leads us to doubt this is true, clearly THE CONSPIRACY is a world champion in the COWERING department -- think Louis B. Mayer and the fascists -- and if this is true it's still a good thing. The biz got along for decades without skin, and now the biz can't get along, among other reasons, with it. One would like to think the days of our MEDIA BETTERS pushing us around like so much offal are finished, but so long as TYRANTS want to assemble EMPIRES, we know better. If on the other hand the BIZ is fighting a rearguard action, it may well be, oh, forty years too late.