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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, February 23, 2004

Posted 1:03 PM by Gene

The fan clubs for SLUTSVILLE and GORY FOR GLORY have more similarities than they may wish to admit. To start, they're both very insular: the soccer mom females, the Bible Belters and knee-jerk conservatives; neither (if Free Republic can be judged on the latter) will admit their masterworks are bad; they're both at worst politically intolerant; and they're both led by the most insular of news hacks (the gushmeisters and ad-blurb copywriters, NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and THE HUMAN TOP). The only thing in SLUTSVILLE's favor is that its cult saw the show. More to the point, the properties share something too: excess; SLUTSVILLE was to sex what GORY FOR GLORY is to violence, and both respective sides should bow their heads and contemplate themselves a little for what their obsessions have done to us. Alas, given some of the CRETINS who run America's churches, we can no more expect that for P. R. Mel than for Horseface.

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