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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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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Posted 10:33 AM by Gene

The hacks got briefly excited that the Hallmark Channel is putting on 35 new "original" dramas. Let's do a little math: If they're all two hours long that's 70 hours. A year has 8,760 hours. Four hours of prime-time a night and you get 1,460 hours. We would say, for all the revuers' hosannahs, there is still not enough "original programming" for one cable network.

And unless the reverse Robin Hoods have suddenly talked themselves into believing the depr -- ECONOMY is over, they'll all be made on the cheap, as is nearly all of cable's "original programming" (except for sports, where often you can't see the money), meaning more glorified filler.

I still submit there is no more original entertainment programming on all of TV than during the 1950s, and no more original programming than on radio in the 1940s.

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