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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, June 17, 2006

Posted 1:27 PM by Gene

Nos. 11 and 12 on the BoxOfficeMojo chart say something. Here are films aimed at hard-core liberals, the kind of people who want freedom of speech for everyone save their enemies -- sorta like Garrison and Mr. Internet. Last week various parties tried to spin these into successes -- especially No. 11, which some clown (it may have been our favorite gossip writer Rog) proclaimed Bob Altman's biggest hit, whatever that means. Their failure would teach Hollywood that people are increasingly impatient with partisan political films (not just of the left, but it helps) except that the biz is doomed, like Sisyphus, keep on making movies no one wants to see. (And in the partisan list we include Garrison's, given some of his level-headed commentary -- just as given GE BANCORP and REALTY's marketing we must include THE CONSERVATIVES' 9-11 MOVIE, though that was mostly tempered by public enthusiasm for reliving it.)

By the way, isn't it time to send the LARRY KING OF FELINES to the Old Cats' Home?

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