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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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Thursday, August 07, 2003

Posted 6:57 AM by Gene

Here's a word that gets the show-biz news hack's blood rushing, like "edgy" or "hip": "fringe," an excuse for public nudism and Marcel Marceau. We're supposed to get excited that all this wonderful "theater" is playing all over big cities like New York and Philadelphia and every other town that thinks Ed Rendell is its salvation. Problem is, even by the Times' admission, only 48,000 showed up for the last of these festivals, which by my calculation equals all of a sell-out month for one show on Broadway; and in the 1927-28 season there were 264 shows, and most of them didn't play in lofts or converted houses. And we get all this PR babble about "fringe" because show-biz news hacks refuse to admit our culture's gotten worse.

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