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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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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Posted 10:24 AM by Gene

See, now movies aren't just movies -- they have to tell us something. And Susan, being a leading GanNETtoid publicist, knows she can't get away with PR merely by saying how wonderful movies are, good and proper though it is; no, her PR is more subtle: she has to cite three perfessers AND Leonard Maltin (not to mention two direc-TORs and an ac-TOR) to convince us modern Christmas movies possess a profound wisdom on the "dysfunctionality" of American life. In short, she has to cite ex-PERTS to confirm how wonderful movies are for whatever reasons she wants.

I'd rather read Andy "SELLER" Seiler plugging Showgirls. A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO SUE!

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