Posted
8:19 AM
by Gene
You're a news hack. Which of these two stories would you run?
Hollywood Seems to Show Vulnerability to RecessionOR:
POLL: MOVIEGOERS FLOCK TO 'R'-RATED COMEDIES WITH GRAPHIC HUMOR!!!!!!!!!! [Home-page link; Hooray-for-Hollywood overemphasis added]
Well that's EASY: it's the LATTER. The first one appears to be a legitimate poll (to the extent polls are legitimate); the second one's likely a self-selected junk poll from a ticket-selling site aimed at fanboys. The first has news bad for show-biz (and by extension bad for news hacks); the second one is good good good! Stories like these are so easy to choose between it's no wonder that not only do the hacks have a rep lower than used-car dealers, but show-biz news has a rep somewhere between the earth's crust and the gates of Hell.
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO CARL AND YAHOO! NEWS!
P. S.
HEY CARL!! MAYBE IT'S NOT SUCH SUPERDUPERWONDERFUL NEWS AFTER ALL!!!!!(First and third links via ArtsJournal)