Eugene David
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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, June 21, 2008

Posted 9:39 AM by Gene

It is official: America's periodical publishers are willing themselves out of business. This week B. S. DEFENDER's Frankenstein monster, having approached a suitably arbitrary milestone of a thousand (too many) issues in print, expectorated a "listicle" of a thousand new show-biz CLASSICS! from the last twenty-five years. A look at the list of the hundred CLASSIC movies quickly reveals it's comprised mostly of the biggest hits and critically acclaimed sops. But a table-pounder at HSX was crushed to learn that the It's a Wonderful Life of the nineties was NOT THERE. Perhaps the TWXSTERS were attempting a sly hidden commentary on the whole thing, like a Soviet dissident smuggling papers through the Iron Curtain. We doubt it; if there's anything PEOPLE WARNER is NOT it's subtle.

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