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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, October 11, 2005
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9:32 AM
by Gene
What's going on here?"Good Night, and Good Luck" exemplifies the Big Thought movie, in which powerful filmmaking masks a pedantry just below the surface. Murrow is the crusading hero, McCarthy the red-baiting villain, and the film a potted history lesson about their showdown. The contemporary resonance is spurred by Mr. Clooney's off-screen remarks as the film's director and co-writer. "I thought it was a good time to raise the idea of using fear to stifle political debate," he said at the New York Film Festival news conference, an idea he echoed in other interviews.
But that comparison ignores the differences between politics then, at the dawn of the media age when both Murrow and McCarthy were just learning how to exploit television's power, and now, when politics is driven by 24/7 media- and image-spinning strategists. When Murrow and his CBS colleagues take on the powerful senator, the event may be emblematic, but that emblem is too simple and nostalgic to apply to reporters reluctant - especially post-9/11 and pre-Katrina - to cross the Bush administration. Wholesale reverence, like the film's toward Murrow, is always the antithesis of complex thought.
And the film's beautiful direction and acting deflects attention from its lack of context. Why did McCarthy and his scare tactics about Communists have such power? What was the sense of the country outside the film's hermetic CBS newsroom? THIS in the -- GASP! -- PAPER OF RE-CORD?
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