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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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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Posted 1:25 PM by Gene

We were just now moved to go to Roger Ebert's Web site. We know Mr. Ebert is gravely ill and he hasn't written for the public in months, but we wanted to see if possibly something from his mind had shown up. Instead we saw a piece of tripe from some typist named Emerson who was afraid to voice a judgment on THE GREATEST COMEDY EVER. Most likely Mr. Ebert would have written one of his patented ads, but at least it would have been interesting. This guy types in the increasingly namby-pamby style of the ad-blurbists. It is bad enough that the blurbists are the ne-plus-ultra of conformism and that they suffer from the most intense kind of cultural Stockholm Syndrome; but worse still, they can't write! One would moan over the loss except the LAST thing we need is more movie ad blurbs.

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