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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 30, 2009

Posted 6:14 PM by Gene

Perhaps the depr -- ECONOMY is showing signs of life -- CEOs are willing to show off their logos behind home plate to get into their coveted luxury boxes and harass their help for months on end. One problem, though -- articles like this (and like clockwork) quote a whole lot of people with "vice-president sales" in their titles, meaning they're as likely to be as full of it as THE WRAP.

We might note too that Rance has had to lay people off at AdAge, and there is word of Nielsen (itself rather big on hooey) merging its media trade titles, making such bullhockey even more necessary from a publisher's point of view, which is definitely not ours.

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