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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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Posted 3:37 PM by Gene

The soap opera has outlived its usefulness, but one cannot guess what would replace it. Perhaps broadcasters should simply auction the space for infomercials, as they would anyway. Or maybe they could start making local programming, an impossibility as they never met a local show that wasn't a PROFIT CENTER (read, a video police blotter) they ever liked.

And a profound comment from the deanette [sic] of the biz:

I think that to represent life, in all its varieties, one needs various age groups.

Much obliged, Agnes Nixon. Try telling that to people who would exterminate everyone over 49.

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