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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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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Posted 9:25 PM by Gene

So I can get this out of the way: We note with the HSX listings we avoided movees that seemed nominally aimed at adults; the problem is so many of these are so very depressingly much the same: political thrillers, domestic dramas, films of social dysfunction. These are aimed at the Os-CARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR®s and the cri-TICS, and most will lose money. There are too many "romantic" "comedies", and many of these can be counted on to bomb. There are also, needless to say, too many fillums with that sci-fi/fantasy hook. We found surprisingly few APATOWS but maybe we weren't looking. The problem is the money films almost to a one are sequels, remakes, and movees based on comic books, video games and TV shows -- and lots of CGIs. And too many titles are aimed at kids, chronologically or otherwise. There is no way the hacks like Mogul's Friend who spin these things can say this is anything but a disaster for their biz, although the biz has been more or less a disaster zone the last fifty years, and the makings were always there.

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