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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James Horner, a double Oscar winner for "Titanic" and composer on this year's "Avatar," says that a decade or more ago, "the composer was always at least equal in rank to picture editor." Now, he thinks, music "has slipped closer to the level of sound effects" for many of the directors with whom he's worked.
We promise NOT to say anything about videogames.
Adds Horner: "No one just says, 'What do you think of my picture? I want you to write what's in your heart.' I haven't heard that in years. That simple concept does not exist anymore."
We wouldn't expect such from a biz now lacking a head and a heart.
(Via the usual AHTSJournal)