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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And another plus to serial TV: if you get any viewers hooked and you cancel after three episodes they'll swear never to watch your network again!
This Villanova student has it right: "You can’t spend your life watching television." That would NEVER occur to TV ad-blurbists.
And maybe in the end that's why serial TV failed: Perhaps the viewers sensed that all these superexpensive, superproduced, superacted, superwritten and superdirected masterpieces were just another clever way of getting their no-longer-gullible selves to stay for the ADS.
(Second link via ArtsJournal. Why doesn't Bill Carter become an exec himself? He has the PERFECT mentality. I wonder -- is he Carter of Sitcomdom?)