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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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Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Posted 5:49 PM by Gene

Is there any doubt this is just a mammoth ego trip? Roberts pere et fils will probably spin off the little matter of EisnerCorp's theme parks, though they deny it. By the time these two frauds are through with their wheeling and dealing they'll have cost their shareholders tens of billions and raised cable rates to $400 a month, and still they won't know why they did it.

Which brings up another question: will the two megalomaniacs stay in the movie biz? At least if they do things right (it's hard to imagine cable tyrants doing things right) they can free EisnerCorp of its cynically-added appurtenances, and it can become plain Disney once again.

Which, in the final analysis, means the fools Roberts pere et fils are buying CapCities all over again.

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