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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, July 31, 2008

Posted 8:40 AM by Gene

Neal, here's predicting GE BANCORP lays a big fat egg foo yung with Its GAMES. Why? Not just the time difference, it's the censorship difference, and the Tibet difference, and the mortal-enemies-with-the-lead-paint difference, and the fact the CEOs on their three-month paid breaks have been promoing the hell out of them, and the fact there are no MARY LOUs, and the fact these will be the first GAMES with a smell, literally and figuratively.

On the other hand we would not be surprised if the God of Mao wafts the smog away, and mysteriously creates "records", but we still say it isn't as easy to hector people into watching something as it used to be.

Or to put it another way, the GAMES are increasingly the Seinfeld of sports; they're about nothing.

P. S. And doping....

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