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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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Wednesday, June 18, 2003

Posted 5:18 PM by Gene

There's an exceptionally lurid trial going on here in Philadelphia in which four teenagers are accused of practically crushing a fifth to death after luring him with the promise of sex. Normally I ignore crime stories involving private citizens -- news hacks notwithstanding, I find them repetitive and dull -- except that it reminded me once again of the despicable flack Richard "ADVERTISEMENT" Corliss, as the teens prepared for their act listening to the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" 42 times. Yes Synergy Dick, listening to a song, or seeing a movie, won't lead you to commit a crime. But one such crime here, and another such crime there, and a third crime there, and more and more such crimes everywhere suggest, as I said before, that something has snapped in the American psyche, and the pop-culture biz must be held to account for its part, along with indifferent parents and defective schools.

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