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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, June 21, 2003

Posted 2:28 PM by Gene

Here's predicting Reader's Digest Association declares bankruptcy. It won't do to say the flagship publication's a relic that survived, unlike Life or The Saturday Evening Post, nor that it couldn't adapt to change, nor that its purpose was superseded decades ago by other media; the truth is it's a thoroughly atrocious magazine that abandoned its strengths, and its core readership, for the usual celebrity worship and vapid "service" features, and people subscribe to it out of habit, much like the newsmagazines, and those people are dying off, and given how atrocious Reader's Digest is, you couldn't pay the replacement readers to subscribe to it.

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