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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, October 11, 2010

Posted 5:44 PM by Gene

TINY: Several weeks ago the Baltimore Sun ran an interesting story that spoke a truth too many in the MEDIA BIZ don't want spoken -- that with rare exceptions people don't care for its product anymore. This is no truer than with television, where the NFL is practically the only attraction to draw anywhere near a true mass audience. So when Nielsen tweaks its prime-time numbers you know EXACTLY what it's doing -- it's trying to talk the sugar daddies into burning even more money on junk television few people watch. Yes, we can make excuses for THE SECOND GREATEST POP-CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENT OF THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY, but six million is still only TWO PERCENT OF OUR POPULATION, meaning ninety-eight percent of us have learned to do without GENIUS -- and the more we can live without GENIUS the better off we can all be.

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