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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 9:13 PM by Gene

Some years back, when Chuck Barris (a Philadelphia native) made an appearance during a Flyers game, a sellout crowd booed. Reading this slightly overwrought but ultimately telling review of George Clooney's film version of Barris's first volume of alleged memoirs (which, unlike nearly every other movie review, does not regale us with the genius of the film and the brilliance of the reviewer), I think how richly he deserved it. We can only take a kind of evil pleasure to think that Barris, a creature of limited gifts and unlimited gall, who made his fortune trashing our intelligence, will end his life a very bitter and unhappy man. (We might take some pleasure too in that the film is bombing at the box office.)

Recently he appeared at the Center City Borders. I thought of going, but didn't. I might have booed him too.

P. S. I believe the anecdote about the three old men appears in Barris's second (and probably more truthful) book of memoirs, The Game Show King. No mention of the CIA in that one.

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