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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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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Posted
8:13 AM
by Gene
Now BRITISH audiences are astonished to find that HERR DOKTOR SONDHEIM'S WUHK is a...MUUUUUUUUUUUUUSI-CAL, and they're walking out in DROVES, which leaves the Guardian to ponder the art of that most deceptive of advertising forms, the TRAILER:Trailers are a language we assumed we all understood. We knew exactly how much to downgrade our expectations according to the number of explosions, the intensity of the pounding drums, and the presence of phrases such as "Academy Award Nominee" and "Adam Sandler". We have even become used to the fact that trailers promoting foreign-language films strenuously avoid all reference to the fact that they are not in English.
But the goalposts are shifting. Sweeney Todd's sleight of hand pales next to the trailer for National Treasure: Book of Secrets, which was recently exposed in the New York Times for featuring camera shots, scenes and lines of dialogue that weren't in the actual movie at all. "Apparently, the studios and all their lawyers feel it's not a legal problem," said National Treasure's director, John Turteltaub. "They cut together the trailers long before we have had time to cut the movie together." Turteltaub hastened to point out he was dead against the practice. "Great movies can get lost because of this," he said, although he declined to name any.
Perhaps it's better this way. If movies really were like their trailers, they'd be so exciting, audiences would routinely die of laughter, despair and fear. Instead, we should acknowledge the fact that trailers have become an art form in themselves. They aren't advertising, they're experimental short-film collages, assembled from existing movies by avant-garde marketing teams. Perhaps we could make an Oscar category for them.HELL YES!
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