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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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Saturday, January 25, 2003

Posted 11:49 AM by Gene

The local Philadelphia news hacks are still in shock that the Iggles lost. One of them, a Dan DeLuca, has called it a "tragedy." Hey clown, tragedy is the parent killed by a drunk driver, or the child succumbing to disease. To call this roadblock to Jeff Lurie's superzillionairedom a "tragedy" is an outrage. Here is but another of the army of automatic typists who so misuse and overuse words they make readers tear out their hair; take "hip", or "genius," or "edgy," or "legendary." If the clown meant it as some sort of ironic jokey expression (news hacks will do this) it wasn't funny. The Tony Ridders of the world will deny it, but it isn't that far a trip from such unforgivable use of a word to "WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." But then, ignorance has always been strength at the Inky. Ask anyone who was manhandled by the Annenbergs.

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