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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 18, 2009

Posted 8:27 AM by Gene

Look, we feel sorry for you ordinary types in show-biz, you're largely blameless; but that canary in the coal mine you work for has a wireless mike around its neck, and transmits its chirps through a 100,000-watt amplifier. Show-biz has an impact out of all manner to its numbers; it exerts totalitarian influence in a nominally democratic society. You gaffers and dialect coaches and stuntmen and audio technicians suffer because the SUMNERS and SLIMES have turned their product into a non-stop insult to the public, and the public may finally be tired of being insulted. Oh yes, we know, there are the "systemic" things too, the Web and people not buying CDs and what not, but we still believe public revulsion with your business is at their root too. And how many people can boast of where they work? Hollywood is still far more "glamorous" than Podunk, even if the glamour is a moth-eaten set. Yes, we feel sorry for you -- but not that sorry.

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