>>>>The point I was making (albeit poorly) is that many news stories actually originate in the tabloids. they have the journalists news hounds out there digging the stuff up.
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>>>You mean like Tommy Lee Jones said about the tabloids in "Men in Black" - "Best investigative reporting on the planet. But go ahead, read the New York Times if you want. They get lucky sometimes."?
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>>One of many great lines from one of my all-time favourite movies.
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>>BTW Will Smith's character's name before he gets inducted into the MIB is James Edwards...
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>>Coincidence? I think not ... < g >
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>As you point out, it IS 08/08/08 ;-)
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>My favorite Tommy Lee Jones line is from "The Fugitive". He catches up to Richard Kimball / Harrison Ford and Ford yells to him, "But I'm innocent!" Jones: "Ah. Doan. Care." IOW I'm a marshal and my job is to bring you in, you can talk to someone else about justice.
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>Have you seen "In the Valley of Elah"? Now there was a seriously underviewed movie. I guess people just didn't want to watch a movie about Iraq (which it really isn't).

More of a murder mystery, with excellent character development.