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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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Monday, January 12, 2009

Posted 9:55 AM by Gene

God bless Joe Morgenstern! A man who must still be pinching himself (like the rest of his ad-blurbing cohorts) that the Golden Globs came back believes that people will march en masse into the popcorn restaurants because they will want fantasies -- that challenge them! The biz must be -- audacious! Of course when a typist like Joe is finished a word like audacious means ad-blurbist pleasin', and mightily depressin' -- but what are the people but an abstraction to the ad-blurbists, who get in the way of greatness?

While it's not quite the Pepe LePew perfume we've come to expect from ad-blurbists it is still in its own puny way another argument for the news biz to fire its every last adjective addict.

(Via the usual ArtsJournal, which must exhume these things)

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