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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When a man who spends his whole life closeted with stars and execs has the gall to say the movies are in touch with America, it's time for some further evisceration of his employer -- which thankfully people seem to be doing.
And in more dimwitted hugging of the industry:
"The issue becomes, how do you reach the numbers of people who saw the movies the creative community is not honoring?" said Cates, who has produced 12 Oscar telecasts.
By saying, "Hollywood [has returned] to its role of cultural arbiter." JAWOHL!
And writing a piece of junk like this happily ignores what a piece of junk the Os-CARS® are -- and how they've traditionally ignored the best of the biz.