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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, January 05, 2008

Posted 10:47 AM by Gene

Elsewhere in The Biz That Gives Us the Biz -- and we must do something about our Variety fixation -- two Brian Lowrys and a Pamela (that's how it's bylined) do a mighty thinker pose wondering why there's such a mammoth split at the Os-CARs® between the WIDE-EYED ARM-WAVING ENTHUSIASTS' faves and the hits. Of course in stories like this the answer must be something as inoffensive and as diminutive of culpability as possible, so two Brian Lowrys and a Pamela say -- it's the water. It's something about the way the water's treated in LALA. That or it's the marketing. Yes! Marketing! Or maybe it's the -- well actually they don't say what it is, which should serve them well with Roger Bart's uncle.

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