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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, November 10, 2004

Posted 1:39 PM by Gene

I have no sympathy for anyone involved in this mess. The "nobody complains" excuse won't wash; I remember reading an article in the trade journal Restaurants and Institutions suggesting only a tiny fraction of those who have a bad experience in a restaurant complain. And broadcasters aren't restaurants; who can fight our REAL national city hall? What's more if Lucas Spielberg's Castor Oil can be shown at 7 p.m., anything can. (That may well have been MICKEYMOUSE NIXON's intent in the FIRST PLACE.) We may be highly doubtful that this Savior of Mankind voted for Dubya or any red-state candidate in His life. Finally, I must quote from THE MASTER, as always: Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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