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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, March 06, 2003

Posted 9:09 PM by Gene

FreeRepublic (of which, I must say, I'm a member) may be proud of having "broken" the Columbia disaster, but today it ran twenty threads with a thousand posts each saying Israeli Radio said Dubya would announce the Maestro's capture, plus a story proclaiming Saddam had blown up 2500 oil wells, plus a breathless gush from somebody saying a cable system had broken into ALL THE CHANNELS with -- AN EMERGENCY!!!!! (They do it on the Comcast system I subscribe to, the picture breaks up when they do it, and the "emergency" is usually announced five hours beforehand on the Web.)

With news like this who needs gossip?

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