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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 12, 2003

Posted 6:48 PM by Gene

A story like this is good news, but I'm not sure I care much, I think because this was a high-visibility case out of dozens and dozens of low-visibility ones, with reporting and publicity little more than the luck of the draw, rather like deciding which unemployed insurance executive to help find work; and also because stories like this, about incidents beyond anyone's control, take the news hacks away from topics which are in someone's control -- the war in Iraq, for instance. A lot of people want a daily soap opera with their news, and a lot of the hacks oblige because they think people won't pay attention otherwise. Soap operas help account for why so few of us knew of Osama before 9/11. News hacks go on their merry way.

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