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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, August 15, 2003

Posted 5:11 PM by Gene

Slasher pictures are another pleasant diversion for which news hacks bear some responsibility. Even before he discovered the joys of infinite wealth at Disney praising nearly all movies (but especially his employer's) I recall how the late Gene "He Lived in an $8.25 Million Co-Op" Siskel distinguished between "good" slasher movies and "bad" slasher movies. The bad slasher movies, he opined, were the ones where women got killed. We now know where Roger "All Thumbs" Ebert got his compassion for the underprivileged Mumia Jamal. The more these idiots talked up certain movies once, like gross-out comedies, the more they're talking them down now -- to cover their odiferous tracks.

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