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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"There's a lot of roadkill out there," says one distribution exec. "You have to look at the marketplace in general and ask what's fixing everyone's attention. What's the public saying? 'I don't like these movies.' "
Clown, you've been making roadkill since the IMMORTAL JACK said you could put it on the screen. You're making movies for nobody but YOURSELVES. You're engaged in NATIONAL ONANISM. And your biz WOULDN'T WANT IT ANY OTHER WAY.
NO WONDER WE DON'T LIKE THESE MOVIES.
"People are not interested in exposing themselves to these (serious) stories," says one distribution head. "Are people in the mood to be pensive? It didn't happen this fall. We're back to the same political issues."
Because we KNOW by HEART what your "ISSUES" are -- and we have ISSUES with your ISSUES.