Eugene David
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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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Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Posted 8:55 AM by Gene

I never got around to Reggie White's death at the ungodly age of 43 because as with Asia's calamity there was little to say -- by all accounts he was a great athlete, and a great guy. Thing is, even the best of today's athletes live only in highlight reels, and those who played before the highlight reels live only in you hadda be there. Beethoven never wore a helmet or shoulder pads -- he probably wouldn't have looked very good in them -- but we still hear and honor his music (though not for much longer if NEWS HACKS and LEGENDARY DAVIS use their WILES). No knock on Reggie White, but any age destined to live only in highlight reels is destined to irrelevance.

Thankfully we DO have THE DARKNESS, FRANZ FERDINAND, KANYE WEST, LOS LONELY BOYS, MADELEINE PEYROUX, THE STREETS, GRETCHEN WILSON, THE SCISSOR SISTERS, COHEED & CAMBRIA, AND BOSTON'S DRESDEN DOLLS!!!!!

AND ALL THAT GREAT THEA-TAH!!!!!!!!!!

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