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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, March 23, 2009

Posted 9:02 AM by Gene

And speaking of press releases, here's one from the ASSPress. The good news: the TWXSTERS are mining their movie vaults. The bad news: it's ON DEMAND, and the pricing reflects it -- $15 for a download, $20 for a DVD. We don't fault George Feltenstein, that very able executive whom we've praised before; he knows there's not exactly a public clamor for Once Upon a Honeymoon. But so many vintage discs now go for single-digits through the online retailers -- we got the TWXSTERS' 10-disc Garbo Collection as a cutout for $25 -- we wonder what this pricing is supposed to prove, except that PEOPLE WARNER is tone deaf as usual.

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