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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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Saturday, March 06, 2010

Posted 3:08 PM by Gene

It's official: There's no future for movies that aren't theme parks. A simple story about a boy and a girl doesn't need bells and whistles. A movie that's about bells and whistles needs bells and whistles. Because the industry has become America's baby sitter and reaps a huge (and increasingly unjustified) premium for 3D, it no longer needs to make movies that aren't about bells and whistles, though as we've noted obsessively it stopped making movies for anyone above the age of three decades ago. We must nonetheless ask: When does boredom kick in? The dep -- recession can't entirely explain what happened to video games last year. Most likely the people we can no longer call retards will drive them back. But no business that likes to tout its universality can go on making displays of bells and whistles forever, unless it has a suicide pact with itself.

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