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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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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Posted 6:31 PM by Gene

Ty Burr has written a book with the self-explanatory title The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together. I've criticized him before -- he can be trendy -- but he's on solid ground here. Here's the thing: Before The Second Coming of Christ anyone could view a movie. Situations and jokes might have zoomed over the kids' heads, but they probably wouldn't be bored, and most likely there'd be little or nothing to harm them, and their parents would still get an adult movie. Now we have no movies for kids and adults, but in their place MARKETING, or movies suitable for no one, or both. A great big thank you again to SECOND COMING!!!!!

By the way, from what I remember, The Seven Samurai would be a pretty good movie for young teens, because it's such a pretty good movie. But why does it have to be so expensive in DVD?

P. S. 21,534. Serves Bertelsmann's boneheads right for printing 100,000 of these. Yoohoo, remainder bins!

(Via a Terry Teachout post on Commentary Magazine's blog)

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