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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Jacques Barzun was not specifically referring to this movie when he theorized that civilizations invariably fall into decadence. But consider that "Big Momma's House 2" was produced by David T. Friendly, the son of the CBS News President Fred Friendly (played by George Clooney in "Good Night, and Good Luck"), who resigned when the network refused to preempt reruns of "I Love Lucy" to cover Senate hearings about Vietnam. It took only one generation for this family to fall this far.
Consider too this film is distributed by RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, who didn't even need a generation to fall.