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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 03, 2008

Posted 7:51 AM by Gene

Meantime the movie geeks and comic-book fans are excited because their 95% masterwork is doing BETTER THAN EXPECTED!!!!!!!!!! While the old coot SUMNER knows how to massage expectations we tallied up those weekend speculations and they seem to be somewhat behind last year's statistical hooey, meaning (apart from the obvious advantage of not hearing PAUL DRECK speak of RECORDS!!!!!) that maybe -- and God knows we read too much into this -- maybe the Civil War and the Os-CAR® debacle started a small part of the fillum audience into THINKING, and perhaps chipped them away from the popcorn restaurants, however CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED the comic-book movies.

To be sure, the comparisons may be better next week, and there is no guarantee the show-biz sycophant-typists still can't get their way, but the public isn't that stupid, though moviegoers are.

(Via the ultrageeks at HSX.com)

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