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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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Thursday, September 23, 2004

Posted 5:51 PM by Gene

"Christian comedy," aside from sounding like an oxymoron, is a clear descendant of The Cosbyan creed of buttless jokes. You can't have laughter without a banana peel. And no doubt with these clean jokes the clean comes at the expense of the joke; humor palatable to a pastor is most likely to be unpalatable to everyone else. Indeed this sounds like just another extension of the dogma that has ruined our culture: that there is a unscalable wall between adult topics and good taste.

It helps too that we get no examples of Christian jokes here, which says in itself this comedy's NOT FUNNY.

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