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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, September 08, 2005

Posted 11:40 AM by Gene

"The league can't cannibalize itself. The way it's set up now, you play on Monday night, and then you don't get another game until Sunday afternoon for most of the season. In other sports, if you miss a game today, you can see another one tonight or another one tomorrow. In football, you only play once a week and you only play 16 weeks, so the interest stays up.

"No matter what they do," Madden said, "they can't really screw it up."

Sure, Coach? Boxing was once the number-one sport. Baseball was once the number-one sport. They screwed it up big-time. Perhaps professional football makes too much money to ever screw itself up. Then again no one ever thought we'd be without the NHL for a full season either.

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