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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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Friday, September 11, 2009

Posted 5:38 PM by Gene

Bono or Little Malc or whoever's running FORBESLIST these days must be wanting to make the HOORAY-FOR-HOLLYWOOD! LISTICLE a twice- or thrice- or twenty-six-times-a-year thing, because Bono or Little Malc or whoever's gotten some guy to type that Nielsen says we're CONSUMING MORE MEDIA THAN EVER! Media never die, he says, they morph. Why Western Union morphed into a poor-people's bank! Well let's look at the morphin' media: Newspapers morphed from comprehensive news sources to bloggings and half-witted link assortments. Movies morphed from a national pastime to tentpoles. Radio morphed from comedy and drama and music to stupid DJs and LOWSY MAYS sellin' cars. Network TV morphed from comedy and drama and music into reality shows; cable has morphed from airing reruns to airing first-run reruns. Typing for the HOORAY-FOR-HOLLYWOOD! LISTICLE means you can avoid value judgments -- and if Quentin said anything bad about the media he would never write for Bono or Little Malc or whoever runs FORBESLIST again.

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