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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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Thursday, July 03, 2003

Posted 7:16 PM by Gene

Andy S.'s "new and comprehensive [and hard to read] summary of fantastic media bias" at the Beeb discloses one worthy defense: an international brodacaster must choose its words carefully. Appellations like terrorist do not merely apply to our war on terrorism or the Arab-Israeli crisis. And too often the Beeb's critics are exceedingly fussy on its diction. That said, the Beeb also owes it to humanity to uphold certain standards, like the inviolability of human life, and given its PC one wonders whether it believes even in that. Still, I'd feel no better (and in some ways worse) if RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! took it over, as his subordinate Andy S. might like; we'd replace one kind of bull with another.

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