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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, July 13, 2003

Posted 6:22 PM by Gene

I am starting to get very impatient with Walter Winchell. He always talks about what a breath of fresh air he is, but so much of what's on his site is the usual fetid blast of inaccuracy (God knows how many times he's pulled stories), spin, cheerleading, politicking, ghoulishness, and above all, the intolerable hype. True his mentor dispensed the same thing, and look what it got him: a rep as a rock-headed reactionary, and death in virtual obscurity. Our high-tech Walter never ceases to prove the truth of the old maxim, the more things change....

(I also wonder how popular he truly is. Alexa.com [which ranks hits only from Windows- and IE-equipped computers] rates him at 222 -- which is less than the New York Times [59], CNN [23], the Washington Post [122], USA Okay [187], the Mess [33] -- so maybe more than a few people are starting to dislike breathing in that sewer stench.)

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