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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 08, 2003

Posted 7:04 PM by Gene

News hackery with a smirk: One of CURLEY's (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) hacks tries to SCAAAAAAAAAAARE us by saying the number of our war dead is nearing Gulf War I. The cream pie at CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) is: 1. The Gulf War figure was 147 -- extremely low by historical standards; 2) Though 29 have died since the official cessation of hostilities, that is about 15 a month -- hardly an earth-shattering figure, except to the obsessively oppositional news hacks; 3. COUNTING NON-COMBAT DEAD (which CURLEY [Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!] doesn't want to as it puts him in a bad light) total war dead are still far behind Gulf War I. People who at this very minute are having angry debates over how many died in that shooting in Mississippi and who will give us conflicting numbers until next week are hardly to be trusted when it comes to the accuracy of anything.

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