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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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Friday, August 29, 2008

Posted 11:16 AM by Gene

TV campaign advertising amounts to a subsidy to broadcasters -- and this is especially true as the bottom starts to fall out of their biz. These idiot pols seem to be among the last to want to work new media. To a man they are dense to the high irritant factor and reverse psychology. Were people to see conclusively that such money wasting is nothing more than a subsidy even the politicians might stop their advertising. But they won't and they'll continue to flatten our brains until the last TV station closes -- which, with their largesse, will be never.

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