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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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Sunday, December 04, 2005

Posted 10:17 AM by Gene

In looking up Joe Cannon's cover we accidentally stumbled across an infrequently-updated blog for PEOPLE NEWSMAGAZINE's archive, and it appears there was actually a time the rag could write a less-than-flattering article on a show-biz type. We cannot recall the last time or any time this rag has mocked someone in the high calling of entertainment -- certainly not since 1990 -- but the fact that it once (if intermittently) did tells us we've lost a lot to SYNERGY. And alas there's something to be said for no-bylines; it prevents hacks from playing to the red light.

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