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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 19, 2008

Posted 8:50 AM by Gene

Here's another number news hacks can turn into statistical fraud. $17.9 BILLION IN VIDEO GAME SALES!!!!!!!!!! Of which about half is for software. If the average game costs $30 to $50, that's maybe 300 million units. That's still a quarter of yearly movie attendance, and far far less than DVD units. I'd guess the most active game purchasers buy multiple titles, just like the movie S&M phreaks, who must see forty of fifty excretions. This number isn't important except to demonstrate when news hacks want to use an EXCLAMATION POINT!!!!!!!!! no one can challenge them.

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