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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, May 29, 2008

    Posted 3:22 PM by Gene

    We mentioned yesterday that certain creative types who did their work frequently and well might be thought of as hacks -- were thought of as hacks when they did the work. Now our pop-culTYURE stinks so roundly they're geniuses. That should not make us scorn them at all. We had not heard of Joseph Pevney before today, but we had heard of Alexander Courage, largely from his work at MGM. That they're both tied together by Star Trek and a virtuous industry indicates a time when show-biz types weren't afraid to be prolific, because they could be prolific and decent. Now they're just indecent, whatever their frequency.



    But then we'd rather work with Cyd Charisse (or Rock Hudson) than one of WOODSTER THE PERV's airheads -- and both did.

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