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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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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Posted 5:49 PM by Gene

News hacks are speaking in mournful numbers about the DEMISE of the THUMBSUPPERY. We should remind people that the original immortal duo made nearly as much as some supporting-ac-TOR Os-CAR® winners in some of the MASTERPIECES they raved, and maybe a few best ac-TORS and ac-TRESSES too -- certainly some best-"original"-screenplay win-NERS. That "the fillum-cri-TIC conformity -- er, com-MUN-ity" is complaining that ESPNCORP's new thumbsuppers will turn this public service into Celebrity Central neglects how Siskel-Boom-Bah and RAH-ger turned movie cri-ti-CI-sm into a preening adjective-fest; the Web merely batted clean-up. And is it really thoughtful to believe the tentpoles deserve thoughtful reviewing?

Even this ASSPress typist admits the thumbsuppers lost their appeal over the years -- but remember, don't blame it on the movies.

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