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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 28, 2003

Posted 8:37 PM by Gene

I must confess to being unfamiliar with the works of Elia Kazan (that is, his work; many of the masterpieces he directed for the stage are familiar to all), but anyone who's seriously studied our culture must know the price he (and another landmark artist, Jerome Robbins) paid for "ratting" on Communists. Indeed one could say the ratters paid a heavier price than the rats, for the rats could drape themselves in the sanctity of their cause, and could always present themselves as "victims," never mind that the cause was promoting Stalin, and Communism, and evil, and death, and that Communism's victims were far more numerous than a few well-paid scenarists. The ratters would always have somebody talking behind their backs, or laughing, or whispering. Ratting involved a moral decision, and not a clean-cut one, but in the end, it was informing on Communists -- or living under Communism. And art, if it is good art, requires and defines moral considerations, whether we like it or not.

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