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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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Thursday, January 23, 2003

Posted 8:00 PM by Gene

There are many writers out there of whom one may ask, "Isn't it time to retire?" Mary McGrory is one of them. She says 250,000 showed for A.N.S.W.E.R.; her number's not far from the Stalinists' half-a-million. Nowhere does she mention all the posters that likened Bush and his cabinet to Nazis, or the occasional burned flag, or the speakers who called the U. S. "the real terrorist." She notes, with the typical fatuous sigh of the over-the-hill news hack, that one of the protestors admires Paul Robeson, a great singer and actor -- and a Stalinist quack. Even a few leftists have questioned the A.N.S.W.E.R. string pulling. Not our Mary. Andy S. says he's in luuuuuuuuuuuve with the Post's editorials. He obviously hasn't read Ms. McGrory.

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