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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, September 14, 2003

Posted 12:22 PM by Gene

Here is why MR. MARK & Co. don't edit their publications: because management theory says they're supposed to be warm and fuzzy with their subordinates so that everyone feels part of the organization -- and besides, since we're all lovey-dovey alike anyway we don't need editing. This might work at a widget plant, but this is definitely NOT how to run a newspaper or magazine. Somebody should have the GUTS to chew out idiots like Jonathan Alter for their automatic typing, but people like MR. MARK won't do so because they flat out have no guts -- and no brains. HOWELL could have been a GREAT editor had he not been in the thrall of the knee-jerk ideological-pretzel liberalism of Pinch, and a common-sense Howell the business needs -- and will never get anymore, as the whole trade is hermetically removed from reality.

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