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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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Monday, March 03, 2003

Posted 6:19 PM by Gene

It's a measure of how well news hacks can hide stories that I just read the sad not-so-news that the folk singer Tom Glazer died last week at 88. (A correction here.) He was the friendly, easy voice on so many of those delightful Children's Record Guild 78s of the late 40s and early 50s, the ones with the striped labels, happy, idyllic recordings for kids (though I suspect a few wouldn't pass the PC test). I've often thought if somebody could put them on CDs and sell them through unconventional outlets (drug stores, supermarkets, the like) somebody could make a nifty bundle. I miss those recordings.

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