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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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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Posted 8:32 PM by Gene

The celebrated blurbist A. O. with B. O., whom we'd have presumed read nothing but his own above-the-title squibs, has written an excruciatingly long think piece in which he opines (to the extent we can figure him out at all) that we should take the bloviating of our exceptionally-self-regarding li-te-rah-TEESTES seriously, and obliquely arguing that there has been no real decline in American fiction; indeed, the biz suffers from a especially hard case of -- I hate this word -- AGEISM.

Forgive our short memory, but it seems A. O. just reviewed A "MOVIE." It was based on A "BOOK." Isn't that "BOOK", and its epochal success, argument enough that li-te-rah-TEEYURE isn't what it used to be?

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