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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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Thursday, August 04, 2005

Posted 8:46 AM by Gene

We forget that in addition to being a car builder extraordinaire Walter P. Chrysler was quite a salesman. In magazines everywhere during the Depression he implored car buyers to consider Plymouth (!) among "the low-priced three." It was a simple, direct, forceful, and effective pitch, and made Plymouth a leading car brand until Juergen Shemp...Shrimp...SCHRRRREMPP destroyed it. Judging from the video morsels Rance Crain's boys put before us the ad biz is certainly NOT interested in selling anything, or in treating their customers as equals -- no, with them it's special effects, and offense, and prurience, and above all, CONDESCENSION. Walter P. Chrysler would be lucky to get a JOB these days.

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