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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“One down year is an anomaly, but two could be a trend,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office-tracking firm Exhibitor Relations Co. “This year is really a turning point.”
Does that mean you're set to top your Guinness-Book record for self-serving blurbs in newspapers?
“Movie theaters will realize they are not in the exhibition business, but are in the entertainment business,” said Mark Cuban, who owns the art-house Landmark Theaters.
No you're NOT, Mr. Captcha, you're in the popcorn-restaurant business, and everything is aimed to maximize the profit on the popcorn.
“Having tent-pole movies and franchises gives you a solid base—it takes some of the pressure off if you have good anchors,” said Tom Ortenberg, president of Lionsgate Releasing.
What if the tentpoles are infested with termites?
OR (since you must mix metaphors) what if the anchors sink the ship?