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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, October 11, 2007

Posted 5:16 PM by Gene

Getting back to $120 MILLION, we wonder if this gag doesn't signal defeat. THE MAN has proclaimed His recording career moribund, and must therefore engage in another stunt (with a stuntlike price tag). But unconventional methods probably won't work; only a big prosperous recording biz can push the annoyances of tomorrow, and prolong yesterday's. To be sure JUNIOR has shown no inclination other than a slow decline into bankruptcy; but depending on CHEAP CHANNEL -- JR. and homemade pressings would be a risk in the best of times; for a "singer" with more than His share of enemies THE MAN stands in danger of something worse: public indifference.

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