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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Section Eight has been an iffy proposition. While "Ocean’s Eleven" was a hit, "Ocean’s Twelve" is generally unpopular.
There are some real turkeys in the Section Eight catalog, too, that cost plenty and brought in from nothing to very little
They include "Rumor Has It," with Jennifer Aniston; the current "A Scanner Darkly"; "The Jacket," which cost at least $30 million but grossed around $6 million; "Criminal," which took in less than a million bucks and had a feature budget of several million; and of course, "Syriana," which made about what it cost — $50 million — but ultimately lost money.
Yep, that's a lot of excellence.
By the way, isn't Section Eight the name of a public-housing program that turns upscale neighborhoods into slums, or something?