Eugene David
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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 8:16 PM by Gene

NOTE: I HATE rewriting! But I have to do it. I don't know how many corrections I made re the Eagles' "tragedy." (I confess; I decided not to call the perpetrator an "idiot.") I also had to rework the business about LA's black murder victims because my first try may have been too ironic and thus misunderstood, and I wanted to loudly back the families of the victims, and the police officers of all races (especially blacks) crunched between numbing PD bureaucracy and raging demagogues like Maxine. As I said before, I will rewrite constantly, so please, non-existent lurkers, bear with me. Thanks!

P. S. Happily I don't need spell-check, and I don't think I've made mistakes. Andy Rooney once remarked that he thought spell-check was a crutch, but even the best spellers have slipps of the fingers. (See?) Judging from other blogs here I'd say, they need it. (I do intend to comment on them, eventually.)

P. P. S. Bloggers! Don't EVER go with your first draft!

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