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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"The best films," Phillips quotes Lean as writing in an essay published in 1947, "are generally those that have the stamp of one man's personality." Phillips takes this as proof that Lean "recognized the concept of the auteur long before it was officially promulgated" and that, by implication, he was himself an auteur. Perhaps so, but why on Earth should it matter? Lean loved making movies and was stubborn and strong-willed enough to make the movies he wanted to within a system that tends to crush individual taste and initiative. His extraordinary career tells us that the system can be tamed and put to good use by someone sufficiently passionate, determined and talented, and we don't need any fancy French words to figure that one out.
No, David "Stocks 'n' Porn" Denby, this does NOT mean MR. TAXI DRIVER.