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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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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Posted 2:00 PM by Gene

When a mo-VEE cri-TIC gets started praising some old-time theater you want the place to close. Yet Baltimore is lucky -- we in Philthydelphia (as I've said before) have no downtown first-runs but for an arthouse, and no single-screen theater. Even as the idiot PAUL DRECK gets ever more excited you can sense reading this, even through the haze of a mo-VEE cri-TIC's pretensions, that something is missing. More than one something: a going city with going industry, a thriving national culture, and people who want to socialize. Take all three a way and you have mo-VEE cri-TICs' encomiums.

And now the city plans to take the place over, which may lead to unwanted taxpayer memories of its own. Did this wri-TER have something to do with it? I'd love to hear the MENCK.

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