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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, June 28, 2005

Posted 12:16 PM by Gene

The VERY glibly written Media Life offers stats from a TWXSTER insisting TV viewing has gone UP. Possibly it has (although the TWXSTER uses a base of 2001, which may not be the best year for comparison), but possibly we could find stats from a leading chemical firm saying chemicals don't cause pollution, or from a leading auto firm saying internal-combustion engines don't cause greenhouse gases. This is the kind of egregious annoyance that occurs too much on the Web, and a site putatively aimed at professionals should know better -- but being on the Web, it doesn't have to.

P. S. to the TWXSTER: 1. What was the last prime-time entertainment to get a 30 RATING -- not share, RATING? 2. When was your stock last worth $90 a share?

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