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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, February 22, 2010

Posted 7:29 PM by Gene

The first reaction to a press release like this is sheer jealousy. With further reflection one thinks of the baseball-card business. Then we remember how many times PEOPLE WARNER has had to revive the Superman trade, using tricks even comic-book readers would laugh at (and judging from this pile of verbiage, there aren't too many of those, and their numbers may be shrinking). The time may come when the corpse refuses to be resuscitated. We think of Mad, whose earliest issues now reside in bank vaults; PEOPLE WARNER could fold it tomorrow and no one would notice. ESPNCORP paid too much for Marvel. Even those who hold its properties in perpetuity for movees may see them lose their immunity to death and destruction. And if September 2008 proved anything it's that a seller's market is not forever.

And between comics in bank vaults and today's comic books without readers we'd say the trade is defunct with the bloom of health.

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