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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, July 29, 2003

Posted 6:28 AM by Gene

I wanted to say this yesterday, but held off thinking it would be in bad taste: can you imagine the nervous breakdown news hacks will have when the greatest poet of all time, Robert Zimmerman, bites the dust? The boomers, knowing their time will come, will quote ever perfessorial charlatan who's ever earned the right not to be fired spouting multisyllables on his profundities, and every page will be filled with quotes just like yearbooks, and by God if it won't mark a new low in pretension and raging lunacy. I do not look forward to that day -- or the day His Royal Highness King Jagger goes, for that matter. Maybe they'll live to be 200 -- or better still, forever.

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