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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 5:24 PM by Gene

Speaking of TENTPOLES, looks like Spidey may now do $40 million. Yeah yeah yeah, the PAUL DRECKS will eruct, $200 MILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But they eructed over DVC too as it waned. This may not bode well for this RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! summer. If people can run out screaming from one EVENT, they can run out screaming from OTHERS. This is reverse Pavlovism.

Some will say show-biz has always been about events. True -- it's been that way since before Quo Vadis? But at least the biz gave something for people to remember; it wasn't a mere excuse for a mass night out, urged upon them by hundreds of thousands of publicists. If every other mass medium can decline so can the movies -- and now it has the reason that it can CLONE the same overproduced movie hundreds of times. The face may change, but the FAKE remains the same.

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