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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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Friday, December 26, 2008

Posted 6:20 PM by Gene

Lately The Hollywood Reporter ran an interesting roundtable with prominent film composers. Musicians rank with stuntmen as among the few Hollywoodians really serious about their craft; they're also among the fewer with any sense of the biz' history. Reading this one gets two impressions -- that, however good they try to be (we have no way of knowing, believing MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER!!!!!), film scoring has taken a nosedive since the golden age (that we can believe); and the bean-counting hacks have largely supplanted music with SFX, and the SFX are getting louder, and all you have at your command is a pencil, which you must "keep moving" (to quote Howard Shore), if only to fill in the lulls between explosions.

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