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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, August 23, 2005

Posted 5:06 PM by Gene

Interesting that Terry Teachout calls this review of THE GREATEST COMEDY DOCUMENTARY OF ALL TIME "unexpected." We can see why: Its utterly CW P-Ulitzer-winning author (who wrote the REVIEW OF THE YEAR thus far) has the gall to say most of the tellings of the HILARIOUS JOKE are unfunny, and worse, that the joke boils over with "hatred" of the audience, and he calls the tellers "losers." If mere comedians are losers who hate the audience, what of the other people who bombard us everyday in every medium with their NON-STOP CONTEMPT?

P. S. THE GREATEST COMEDY DOCUMENTARY OF ALL TIME doubled its theatres and saw its gross decline by 23 percent. No doubt THAT joke's funnier than the "movie."

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