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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, February 06, 2003

Posted 1:22 PM by Gene

It astonishes me why some find Martha Stewart the embodiment of evil. Perhaps it's jealousy; few women have been more successful and ubiquitous. It can't be the insider trading: by Wall Street's standards she's a piker. It can't be the Bossy Broad routine; Carly Fiorina's bossier -- much bossier. I think she's a stand-in for all people hate about big media -- that someone, largely from luck, can be everywhere, oppressively everywhere, lending her name to so many things she has nothing to do with except in royalties and profits. She's like Kathy Lee without Regis or the singing.

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