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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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Sunday, February 08, 2004

Posted 3:01 PM by Gene

In rare INTELLIGENT commentary on SUMNER'S STUNT -- rarer still as it comes from the big TRIBUNE news-and-entertainment oligopoly -- a writer suggests that the only way to insure some fairness on the censorship front is to put broadcast and cable in the same boat. There's no other way. And given that the same companies are in broadcast and cable anyhow, it ought to be doable -- provided we don't get the usual outpouring of lobbying and fake First Amendment pleadings. That Lowsy and CHEAP CHANNEL are leading the charge (or at least putting out press releases) means these clowns have every reason to be afraid. Nor will anything work until we look into the SECRET formula for JACK's ALPHABET SOUP. This must be coordinated, or not done at all.

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