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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 4:36 PM by Gene

That we roll our eyes over stories like this (the words "Nut Case" in the headline won't help), involving murders inspired by films/TV shows/video games (pick your poison), is a measure of how the acid-cynical influence of news hacks has worked its way through our culture. We should be outraged at such crimes, and yet we must think clinically, with a measure of knowing Auletta-style insider ennui. The problem is, news hacks have dual loyalties -- to themselves (the only loyalty they really appreciate), and to any business affiliated with themselves (i.e., entertainment). We saw it with Columbine, when they went out of their way to blame guns and absolve show-biz. News hacks bade goodbye to the human race long before The Front Page, but now their defense of crime in the name of self-interest has become mind-boggling. Should anyone wonder that so many people want to ditch the First Amendment? If we ever do, it will be mostly the news hacks' fault.

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