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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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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Posted
11:49 AM
by Gene
"It's the lowest form for hype," says Gary Carr, senior vice president of national broadcast for TargetCast TCM. "It's an embarrassment to our business. I can't imagine anyone in their right mind buying into this. I'm ashamed for Fox doing this, after the network gained respectability in recent years. They have gone for the low blow again." TRANSLATION: PLEASE, PLEASE, WE'LL PAY $2 MILLION FOR A THIRTY ON AMERICAN IDOL!!!!! PLEASE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
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