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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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Saturday, April 05, 2003

Posted 8:09 AM by Gene

I recall how Ho-WAHD Co-SELL got riled over color commentators who turned sports into nuclear physics. As he said (and I paraphrase), the only thing that matters is "the team with more points wins." Well, if the news hacks haven't quagmired and uprisinged and sandstormed and unilateralled all over the place, and trotted out ten thousand retired generals who've saluted their navels for years, and given us maps and charts and graphics and green sunglasses, and millions of bits of information of no use, and if the whole point isn't the same: the team that captures the flag wins. All the rest is bull.

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