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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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Saturday, April 30, 2005

Posted 9:20 PM by Gene

For those of us who knew Star Trek when it was a DESILU show on NBC (yes, LUCILLE BALL produced it -- briefly), there is a certain melancholy to this story. Gene Roddenberry was lucky the Peacock's bean counters were so stupid; they turned memorable (if preachy) sci-fi TV into what has to be called a FRANCHISE; on the other hand they can also be blamed for the birth of the GET-A-LIFE crowd that has ruined so much of entertainment and has made computing such a nuisance. That the series may have no future signals the hopeful possibility that the LUCAS SPIELBERG franchise, which did so much of its part to dumb down America, may not be forever either. But while part of us laughs at SUMNER and HIS bean counters over yet another predicament, we must mourn that it was once possible for TV to unite so many of us, and that a memory of our youth further drifts away.

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