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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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Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Posted 5:03 PM by Gene

While there's a bit of the Camille Paglia to this long dissertation against you-know-who and her books, the fact remains this is the first negative article I've read on the phenomenon in quite a while. You-know-what books have entered the Pantheon of the Untouchable, along with HBO series -- they cannot, and WILL NOT, be criticized, not only because of the "what's-good-for-AOL" mentality that dictates the news biz, but perhaps because the jaysonists feel that by criticizing you-know-who and you-know-what they may discourage kids to read (as if they don't provide enough discouragement themselves), ignoring what this writer says very plainly: too many adults are reading the books too. The argument that you-know-what books are a manifestation of "cultural infantilization" cannot be ignored.

Thank you, ArtsJournal.com, for not linking to a press release or a trendy rave, for once.

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