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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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Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Posted 2:00 PM by Gene

With his giddy, smirky face and his facile non-thought, General Jr. seems the sort of man foreordained to be a slut in government for industry. Now he's setting up the FCC to rewrite the regs so that Rupert and Sumner and Lowry and the whole bunch of show-biz villains who've served us so well get to own everything. "LET THE MARKETPLACE DECIDE!" says his hammer to his knee. I think of that other great slut in the FCC, Mark Fowler. During his reign several companies came up with competing technologies for AM stereo -- low-fi sound, to be sure, but something that might have revived the lesser part of the dial. "LET THE MARKETPLACE DECIDE!" bellowed Mark, but the marketplace couldn't decide anything, and AM stereo withered. A small loss, perhaps, but all too predictable when "THE MARKETPLACE DECIDES." Fowler went on to become a broadcast lobbyist, natch -- as will General Jr.

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