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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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Saturday, November 15, 2003

Posted 2:22 PM by Gene

Larry Tisch, the Loews boss who drove CBS from Bill Paley nearly into the ground then into the arms of "Airhead" Jordan, then the ZON, then Sumner, has died. He bought the outfit because the "Legendary" Mouth from the South threatened to turn the network's glorious news division into a platform for loony-right nut cases. He later sold the company's records division (the only good thing he did -- but at a lowball price) because he couldn't stand its cocaine-snorting alcoholic boss, the "Legendary" Walter Yetnikoff, a man who invented gaudy gold chains. Sony got stuck with it. Good for them. His reign was one of mismanagement and decline. (Fittingly the Loews press release doesn't mention CBS.) Fortunately he sold to people who will live forever. RIP.

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