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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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Monday, July 25, 2005

Posted 5:01 PM by Gene

The GREATEST B. O. EXPERT this side of PAUL DRECK says the BIZ is making money HAND OVER FIST. Well if the biz is making money HAND OVER FIST why did PAUL DRECK boast of down weekends for four months? Those zillions of unsold copies of Shrek 2 were "built into the business model"? Tell that to shareholders of DWA. I'm not sure we should take the BIZ' presto-changeo at face value; neither am I sure we should trust a man who saluted MICKEYMOUSE NIXON. Then again, would you trust any numbers from the show-biz MAFIA -- however they leaked them to our new greatest expert on B.O.?

I'd believe in this "death-spiral" shtick except that something has always pulled this rank pile of bad beef out of the fire -- first radio (which gave it an enormous promotional opportunity), then TV, then cable, then the VCR, then the DVD. We can only hope it works this time; but if DVD sales are flattening, doesn't that mean THE CONSPIRACY is safe -- for now?

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