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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, December 28, 2009

Posted 8:58 AM by Gene

Which is why -- and we harp to death on this, we know -- THE GREATEST WEEKEND EVER!!!!!!!!!! riles even more than usual. Show-biz advertising -- we cannot call it news -- is a BS ZONE. If press agents have total control over one part of the alleged news biz why can't they have control over others? And because the biz' expression of self-interest is so naked and so prone to the lock step we cannot trust them otherwise. And as we said before, show-biz advertising has become a state press PROFIT CENTER -- so it will only get WORSE, hard as it is to imagine when it's already the dregs and boring out of the barrel.

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