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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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Friday, August 08, 2003

Posted 5:19 PM by Gene

Which reminds me, about a week ago Jeff (who got off a pretty fair logrolling of the Professor himself) got in a violent tiz over the dumbing-down of pedestrian traffic lights. "Why?" screamed Jeff. "Because we're all illiterate (well, the way the schools are going...)?" Uh, if I recall, Jeff, your employer has a rather exemplary record of dumbing down people too. How soon we forget that the Terror Twins, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, developed Timespeak, an exquisite mangling of English so offensive to some that Wolcott Gibbs seared it in a famous New Yorker parody that's still funny if you know the history. "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind!" Timespeak disappeared, but the rag's propensity to lie for power and profit didn't. Who discourages literacy more: the well-meaning bureaucrat substituting pictograms for words, or a venal liar like ADVERTISEMENT (who's no doubt a close friend of Jeff's)?

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