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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, May 11, 2003

    Posted 1:43 PM by Gene

    This latest ploy by J-school deans to "improve" the news (in this instance, the execrable TV end) reminds me of an article Mencken wrote (which I read when I still respected him) where he let the reformer-novelist Upton Sinclair have it for a particularly lame-brained scheme to improve newspapers. Just how did he propose to improve papers? Simple: by having professors be their reporters and editors. Surely professors would have respect for truth and objectivity. Imagine someone trying that act today! Well, we can. Just read the papers. The more things change....

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