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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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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Posted 8:07 AM by Gene

I did not wish to bring this up again, but the cloyingly facetious typings of THE PROFESSOR and THE CORNER forced my hand: a reason so many insist in revering bad sixties sitcoms (aside from the loss-of-innocence-after-our-favorite-assassination angle, surely a piece of junk in itself) is that for years mongrel UHF stations reran the shows ad nauseum, as they had too much time to fill, and more recently some cable networks did exactly the same thing, and combined with the simultaneous burgeoning of pop-culturitis this created a sort of Stockholm Syndrome, where some people loved their cultural tormentors. A country that falls in love with awful sitcoms, however "ironic" that love, may be capable of consigning hundreds or thousands to death in a hurricane, as in both instances it's stuck its head where a head oughtn't to be.

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