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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, February 08, 2003

Posted 8:51 PM by Gene

Here's why people don't trust news hacks: Drudge posted a link headed, "BUSH AND BLAIR TO GIVE SADDAM JUST 48 HOURS TO LEAVE IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (He didn't add the exclamation points, but he always does, figuratively.) The link was to a Telegraph story headed, "US and Britain give Saddam just 48 hours to leave Iraq." Its opening sentence reads,

Britain and America are drawing up plans to give Saddam Hussein as little as 48 hours to flee Baghdad or face war, if UN weapons inspectors report this week that the Iraqi dictator is still refusing to disarm fully.

That's a few qualifiers, if you ask me. Please guys, don't pull a Hearst on us. No wonder Sulzberger the Junior impersonated Rodney Dangerfield at KU.

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