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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, July 11, 2011

Posted 5:42 PM by Gene

Grate.com is often a glorified fanzine and has this way of hiding its very rare good stuff, but Bill Wyman's piece is a sword to BIGMEDIA's stomach. With content easier to procure by illegal means why bother paying for it? And it doesn't take a genius IQ to figure that "the overall value of [their] product, which had been propped up by [their] monopoly control of it, has been considerably and permanently lessened." To the extent BIGMEDIA's extrusions become an irrelevance it can only be good for us: if the stuff's worth nothing, why spend so much time watching nothing?

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