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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, January 27, 2003

Posted 8:22 PM by Gene

For at least a week, while walking down a Center City street, I've passed a stoop with a pile of bedding. I suspect there's someone within it. I needn't tell you it's been so cold I fear to walk outdoors lest ice form on my nose. (It should moderate some this week.) Of course, in a humane society, someone would do something about the pile of flesh in the pile of bedding, but someone can't. Why? He has his rights. It's kidnapping. No one can tell another person what he/she/it can do. The more fatuous may quote Walden, or William O. Douglas. An enterprising "reporter" could turn it into a Knight Ridder "j'accuse."

Such is our society's melancholy state when (to cite Professor InstaPundit) news hacks are our default public intellectuals, and all they read is their own copy.

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