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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, September 11, 2007

Posted 6:40 PM by Gene

The Casino on the Potomac (aka the Kennedy Center) has named its annual Show-Biz HHonorees, and the choices are about as you'd expect; if there isn't anything as egregious as MS. BOOBS, it's still proof that all those fundraisers love nothing more than a good night of schmoozing. So we get a comedian, and a couple of pop stars, and a man being honored for making TAXI DR -- for being one of the greatest direc-TORS of all time, and in what passes as a nod to culture some left-handed piano player. If someone asked the idiot in charge of the Kennedy Center what his Show-Biz HHonors program would be like in twenty-five years he'd yell, "NO COMMENT!!!!!" -- and rush off for more fundraising.

To be sure, it is nothing new for such clowns not to know what they're doing; after all, people like the Knopfs made their own mistakes as publishers. There's one difference though; at the Kennedy Center, they're proud of it.

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