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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, January 31, 2003

Posted 3:31 PM by Gene

I see Dick Wolf's revival of Dragnet is getting pummeled by the sort of news hack whose favorite word is "ironic" (which includes practically all the TV-ad-blurb copywriters). To be sure, it wasn't a good idea. Not only was TV different in Jack Webb's day; the world was, too. What's more, Dragnet was Jack Webb, and his shtick was the stuff of parody long before the first version went off the air. (Remember Stan Freberg's "St. George and the Dragonet"?) But then he wasn't some undifferentiated bon-bon from the TV junk-food factory. Unlike the zillionairheads who never stop exulting in their superiority complex, Jack Webb was the real deal. And how many in Hollywood have an allegiance to the audience?

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