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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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Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Posted 7:41 PM by Gene

The New York Observer, the rag that gave us Candace Bushnell, the, er, lady who made sex as appetizing as (and roughly analogous to) a wad of Skoal in Lenny Dykstra's mouth (EW! YUCK!! GROSS!!!), has this bad habit every three months or so of puffing trendy coming-phenom writers who then disappear forever. Here's the latest new thing. While the usual intolerable cliches are happily missing ("edgy", "hot", etc.), they're made up for by the sailor-mouth words Arthur L. Carter seems to think make his pile of pink newsprint "adult."

To the PR types who write for the Observer, a question:

Whatever happened to Jay McInerney?

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