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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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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Posted 10:50 AM by Gene

By constructing a movie marketplace in which there's such a clear distinction between event product and everything else, Hollywood risks turning moviegoing into an event activity. The danger is that the public buys into the concept of seeing event movies to the point where people don't want to see anything but event movies. Since the industry isn't going to produce enough event movies to release 52 weeks a year -- mostly because that level of competition would probably result in megabudget boxoffice casualties -- Hollywood could wind up with moviegoers only showing up for event films and ignoring the nonevents.

But isn't the point of all these wonderful TENTPOLES to get people into the popcorn restaurants? And what's wrong with a little business Darwinism if it might discourage people from seeing TENTPOLES -- especially when they see that's all your beloved biz makes anymore?

God, you're long-winded, Marty.

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