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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, February 07, 2003

Posted 3:06 PM by Gene

Leftists are in an apparently war-related offensive to label the media conservative. Leading the pack is Eric Alterman, a Michael Moore without the attitude. His argument (here excerpted from a book) trips up and falls head-first when he cites the "success" of The Wall Street Journals' "editorial page" as proof of their rightward tilt. Which I guess explains why Bob Bartley ran his own reporting on Whitewater (the very conservative Al Hunt and Gerry Seib sure weren't going to do it), and why half the Washington bureau staff are alumni of the very conservative Washington Monthly, once run by the very conservative firebrand the Rev. Charles "Noble Cause" Peters, and why the very conservative Pulitzer-winner Susan Faludi became a raging feminist, and why the very conservative persecution of Clarence Thomas was led by two Wall Street Journals reporters.

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