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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, July 30, 2006

Posted 9:11 AM by Gene

And speaking of wisdom (PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!), Mr. Mark gets to plug a movie and be patriotic at the same time! This story is full of unappetizing motives: PATRIOTIC GORE and MS. TRAVERS and the gang think it's THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER because it's CON-SER-VA-TIVE; the critics will love it because it's OLLY, and OLLY's EDGY, and -- this sort of thing is so larded over with politics and motives you get disgusted at the sight of it, however well-meaning the property. Most likely this will not do that well; people are just tired, and as the last 9-11 movie showed, they may not go to movies for castor oil.

To his credit, Olly's changed his mind, but we still believe public officials and celebrities are guilty until proven innocent.

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