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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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Sunday, March 09, 2003

Posted 7:42 PM by Gene

Yet another study links TV violence with the real-life kind. Media violence (along with its brother bugaboo sex) has been effectively neutralized as a topic of concern because social scientists, held in the same widespread high regard as car dealers, use their false science to prove matters of taste. Industry-toadying news hacks have greatly assisted the process by delinking taste from art. The frauds of show-biz completed the process by segregating taste into the realm of "family entertainment," thus equating both with pablum. And so eyeballs roll worldwide with each new link of media violence and aggression. The problem could be solved with a little dignity and common sense, but won't be because the media rule the world with the stainless-steel fist in the titanium glove.

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