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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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Sunday, February 02, 2003

Posted 5:07 PM by Gene

Continuing with Nobels, I remember when I could still stomach Nightline and Ted Koppel was jabbering with the newly unimprisoned Nelson Mandela. "Here is a future Nobel winner," one future fatuous gasbag could say of another, "and so am I."

Mr. Mandela has returned the favor in spades. But we should not be surprised that The Conscience of the World has made so many idiotic statements lately. Take Ted Koppel, add communism and pigment, and you have Nelson Mandela.

At least his parents took care not to make him look like Alfred E. Neuman.

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