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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Why Movie Studios Should Check out Check-in Networks
Hollywood Could Start Rewarding Consumers for Their Movie Watching
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[W]ith entertainment-based check-ins, whole new strategies are possible to take advantage of people's enthusiasm to show off what they're doing to their social-network connections. Miso and other networks already hand out their own badges. People can earn "TV Fan" badges and other such honors, mostly based around genres.
Imagine, though, if someone could earn a "Paramount Ambassador" badge after checking in to 20 movies from that studio. And imagine if the studio then had a program in place to reward that person with some sort of prize pack or other freebies.
Some people must keep their jokes to themselves.