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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The numbers tell the tale. The shrinking of the broadcast network playing field from six to five, as WB Network and UPN morph into CW in the fall, inevitably has led to a reduction in the overall number of new and returning primetime series orders logged for the first time in years.
By the end of upfront week Thursday, the five largest suppliers of series programming had orders for 93 series, compared with 111 last year (those figures include some double-counted shows because of co-productions).
That SHOULD mean LESS junk television; HOWEVER these sewer outlets can always ramp up production when consumer-products CEOS get in a mood, and the REVERSE ROBIN HOODS of MADAVE are busy now looking for alternate junk to finance -- like cable, Web TV, Pod TV, etc., etc. -- so our dollars can go further in financing junk, and their advertising-department fiefdoms are safe.