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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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Thursday, May 22, 2003

Posted 6:48 PM by Gene

The Center for Public Integrity has created a potentially very useful database compiling media ownership. We've never had anything close to this, and if it doesn't demonstrate the unhealthy symbiosis among media, and between media and politics, I don't know what does. One problem, though: click to determine who owns, say, radio stations in a given city, and you get pie charts that would seem to indicate most ownership is "independent." But these charts would surely be very different if determined by audience size or ad revenues, where the Usual Gang of Monopolists would prevail and "independents" would get a very meager slice of the pie. I hope the Center can improve on this.

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