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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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Wednesday, March 05, 2003

Posted 10:23 AM by Gene

The news biz is in a tiz because one of Courage's translators faked an accent. This isn't a first for the untouchables of Viacom Network News: when St. Edward of Murrow and St. Frederick of Friendly put out their I Can Hear It Now documentary LPs they used many recreations and some clever edits. (One that still rankles to this day: John Daly's Pearl Harbor bulletin leads off with the intro of his bulletin on FDR's death so the blessed Saints could pretend he said "We interrupt this program," which he didn't -- because the bulletin came in a scheduled news break and followed straight from a gasoline commercial. Cle-VER.) It's beside the point anyway: We shouldn't worry about Courage faking an accent through a translator when what he really faked was an interview.

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