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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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Friday, February 25, 2011

Posted 6:11 PM by Gene

In news that America may not be changing for the better, MS. TRAVERS's favorite religiously selective hard-core satirical duo is apparently poised to have A SMASH!!!!!!!!!! in Branson East -- and the critics already have the raves programmed, as mocking such a superb act has a strong downside -- but we would say this: There was a smash satirical show back in 1937. It was called Hellzapoppin'. And that had a duo too: Olsen and Johnson. Anyone here remember them?

A comedy hodgepodge full of sight gags and slapstick, the show was continually rewritten throughout its run to remain topical; its opening scene was Hitler speaking in a Yiddish accent.

Sounds like our boys 74 years ago.

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