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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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Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Posted 3:33 PM by Gene

The Freepers had a conniption today because the Wicked Witch of the White House, Helen Thomas, called Dubya "the worst president ever." (I've linked here, though it hasn't worked all day; it's also posted here.) I suppose we must tolerate the Hag due to her advanced age, and she does deserve some leeway because she is, in the responsibility-avoiding language of the press, a "columnist"; but she also asks questions at White House briefings, and is something more than a mere opinion spouter. One doesn't wish to fire people for their opinions, but the Hag has crossed a line somewhere, and the imbeciles at Hearst who hired her should have their biscuits baked by an angry readership.

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