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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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Monday, January 05, 2004

Posted 11:47 AM by Gene

At the theaters, attendance was down 4.25%. Box office was down to an estimated $9.275 billion, compared to $9.317 billion in 2002, despite a 4% rise in ticket prices, according to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. The trend in theaters was still more sequels and more comic books. In 2002, six of the top-ten movies were sequels: The number two hit, Pirates of the Caribbean by The Walt Disney Co., was based on a theme park ride, and another, Finding Nemo, the year's top hit by Disney and Pixar, was a cartoon. This is one more sequel than appeared in the top ten a year ago. Just five years ago there was not a single sequel in the top ten, according to data provided by Boxofficemojo.com.

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