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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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Friday, June 27, 2003

Posted 6:53 AM by Gene

Reuters is gushing that some clowns starting America's 4,728th cable channel have sandblasted Jackie Gleason "Honeymooners" shows from the late sixties. These are not the immortals of '55-'56, the Holy Grail of sitcomdom; these are hour-long musicals, with (as I recall them) corny plots, corny songs, corny production numbers, and very little funny. Yet it is a measure of how hard up cable-TV networks perennially are for reruns that we got a press agent to call them "classic." Hey but The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Gilligan's Island (which also aired on the alleged Tiffany Network, then called CBS) are "classic" too. Right?

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