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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, June 13, 2004

Posted 12:56 PM by Gene

We know HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS KING RICHARD does not watch so much as one movie or TV show from His empire, so He will not care that His latest epic (according to the fake and premature numbers which PAUL DRECK calls definitive) has declined by nearly two-thirds. I'm old enough to recall when a movie was still special, when My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music played in reserved-seat first-run houses for a year. There was a mystique to such films, the notion that here was a classy product that could stand the test of time. The King and His fellow Kings are out to get their product in and out of theaters in one week, and that's also befitting. Perhaps they can make them come and go so fast they won't have to play in theaters at all.

By the way, PAPER OF RECORD, it looks as though Saved! is headed to box-office perdition.

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