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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Think about it: Don LaFontaine was the voice of BAAAAAAAAAAAD film. But then trailers are mere synopses of BAAAAAAAAAAAD movees. If movees were good they wouldn't need announcers -- or trailers. If Hellywood knew what it was doing (which it always does) it would have actors sell their own work -- no hyperkinetic clips, no idiot announcers, just themselves. They'd probably do a better job than trailers -- and certainly a better job than trailer announcers. Thankfully Hellywood knows what it's doing. Keep up the BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD work!
(Via The Hollywood Reporter)