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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, June 11, 2010

Posted 10:14 PM by Gene

Getting back to the movee extrusion biz, it is appropriate that the summer's biggest comedy hit is the writing credits on The A-Team. This is like a Polish joke only Polish jokes usually don't cost $100 million and aren't accompanied with $50 million in advertising. But even in their finest hours of megalomania the pygmy kings of Hollywood can't laugh -- as witness this heavy thinking in SLIMEDOM as to whether A could be an ADULT movee:

Tom Rothman would never have allowed that. Rothman hates R-rated movies more than anything for box office reasons," a source reminds me.

I thought being better than your audience and excluding lots of them from the theaters was always a smash!

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