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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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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Posted 5:19 PM by Gene

It is all well and good for the Feds to stop movie pirates, but when news hacks say "The Hollywood crackdown is part of a larger push to halt traffic in pirated and counterfeit goods, including pharmaceuticals and software", you can be sure the Feds aren't doing it to schmooze with software CEOs, and it would not surprise us to learn our successes in real industries are limited.

We would also expect a champion schmoozer like G-Man (why did Bloomy have to keep him on?) to parrot a factoid that MOVIE PIRACY COSTS THE U.S. ECONOMY $20 BILLION A YEAR!!!!!!!!! he gladly received through one of his would-be bosses.

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