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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Okay, it's just $100,000 less -- but it's still LESS, and movies with any appeal SHOULDN'T do that. But since when has the biz made appealing movies?
This is the FIFTH "big" movie to so underwhelm -- DVC!!!!!!!!!!, the X!!!!!!!!!!!, Nacho Man, Tokyo Speed Racers, and now this. THE CONSPIRACY can't stop HUGGING itself.
Interesting how the ROOTKIT MOVIE CO. has "estimated" its cinematic doo-doo has done EXACTLY $40 MILLION. Why? So PAUL DRECK could scream, "THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE SMASH HIT!!!!!"
And the movie with the strange looking bugs with eyes in what look like windshields (do you suppose that had something to do with the B. O.?) will not reach much above $200 million -- yet another movie that was supposed to do UMPTEEN MEGAZILLION. ESPNCorp's stock hasn't been lapping the field lately.