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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, February 01, 2005
Posted
6:48 AM
by Gene
I suspect the cleverly manufactured controversy over CLINT'S EUTHANASIA MASTERPIECE (with AD-BLURB COPYWRITERS doing some HEAVY-DUTY MANUFACTURING) may be moot when the NIELSENS for the OSCARSĀ® come in.
We must remember the AD-BLURB COPYWRITERS are the self-proclaimed PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS of the NEWS TRADE -- and if NEWS HACKS are CONFORMISTS and PHILISTINES to the Nth DEGREE, AD-BLURB COPYWRITERS are CONFORMISTS and PHILISTINES to THE Nth OF THE Nth DEGREE.
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