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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As I've said a zillion times before, good news for show-biz is bad news for the rest of us -- especially now that it's a glorified ward of the state. So okay, SUPERNIKKI!!!!!, you've got your GOOD NEWS!!!!!, but even you have to remind us the weekend was led off by a 3D babysitter, and there's still a vast indifference to most of the also-rans -- and even if your industry came out ahead $30 million a week for the next twenty weeks you'd still be behind for the year. Uncritical teens and parents will pull this undeserving industry from its rut, but we still would like to think this time will be different.
While we're at it, here's a dictionary definition of MORON:
Rio 3D posts the best G-rated family pic opening since Toy Story 3!!!!!!!!!! [Best overemphasis added]
We'd guess it's the first pic so rated SINCE!
The industry's SCARLET LETTER is STILL
P. S. at 6:38 P. M. We were pleased to see the Cult of AYNISM could not lure the hoards -- pardon, hordes into believing their GREENSPANIAN gospel of prosperity everlasting. Con-SER-va-tives will say, "It was a bad film." So was WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!!!!!! The Jesus Slasher Movie!