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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Robert Dowling, editor-in-chief and publisher of The Hollywood Reporter and president of the VNU Business Media Film and Performing Arts Group, is retiring after 17 years at the helm effective Dec. 31, he said Tuesday.
Dowling said he is starting his own consulting firm, the Bob Dowling Group, to serve clients looking to navigate the converging worlds of entertainment and technology. VNU Business Media has signed a three-year deal as Dowling's first client.
Okay, he's 66 so he's close to retirement, but this gets us to thinking: Most show-biz hacks write screenplays when they want to harvest their connections. This sounds even BETTER! You can get to be a power in the BIZ as a consultant -- and this guy has a client! Good luck, Bob -- and we hope you inspire many, MANY AWFUL MOVIES!
And we hope they make a TOP 100 list.