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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, May 05, 2007

Posted 11:39 AM by Gene

Here is where press agents and news hacks (six of one) do their duty: by emitting nonsense like "ALL-TIME RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" we automatically stop people from thinking, and a company that's employed fake movie critics and rootkits is about nothing so much as control. Thus I have come to the notion that certain things should be minimally reported, because we get spin or PR otherwise -- and at the top of the list are box-office "grosses."

Let's see: all those midnight openings, and more theaters, and less competition, and inflation, and -- how many ways is this ALL-TIME RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dishonest?

But heck if The Paper of Re-CORD can run unindependent independent "experts" we can run "grosses."

P. S. Movies two through ten did an alleged grand total of $8.76 million in business. Whoopee.

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