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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, May 10, 2003

Posted 6:08 PM by Gene

Now that I think of it, except for the plagiarism, I don't detect a whole lot of difference between Jayson Blair and Richard "ADVERTISEMENT" Corliss. Both men have put one over on the public, except that Corliss did his work "legally." I give the benefit of the doubt to Blair: he was acting merely on his own. The pitchman was lying for AOL.

Whether they're selling a fib or a product, America's news hacks must now be held on a leash so short we can lift them in the air to give them an idea what hanging is like.

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