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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, November 16, 2005

Posted 8:16 AM by Gene

We'll forgive this plug for Harold Lloyd DVDs because Lloyd died in 1971, and he's a relic. That his rep has come down to a stereotype should give pause to those who think the dog leavings of our time will last. Lloyd was one of the biggest film stars of his day, an era of riches we cannot begin to know about as silent movies are almost beyond our comprehension (and face it, much silent comedy STINKS), and in this case all we can conjure is a nerd in thick round-rimmed glasses hanging from clocks on skyscrapers. Harold Lloyd was more than that, but to get to think silent movies were good requires the kind of change in worldview comparable to getting movie ad-blurbists to write pans.

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