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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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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Posted 8:39 AM by Gene

And the TV audience -- TV writers and SUMNERS notwithstanding -- will not watch reheated beauty pageants, or most anything else they think it would, and thus may be smarter than most would think. Given what we're told here it took to get ESPNCORP Network to air this one -- no royalties, a slot in the Saturday dead zone, where it once aired in Septembers -- and given it was down a third from its last time on a network, this pancake is still a pancake. "[N]umbers for just about everything but football have fallen since then, so the decline is no surprise." So why do TV writers always act as though the ratings for everything are going up?

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