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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, January 28, 2003

Posted 11:51 AM by Gene

Now even Patrick Goldstein, one of those interminable show-biz insiders, finds out what America has known since 1968: Jack's ratings system, aside from being so many other things (don't get me started!), is deceptive marketing. That fraud should be tarred, feathered, and then dumped to the bottom of the ocean. The ratings system, AND Jack.

And this deception was inspired in a small way by Rob "Kid-Friendly" Reiner, who, in the tradition of people who always have our best interests in mind, had no comment for the mogul-friendly Mr. Goldstein.

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