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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 07, 2003

Posted 2:23 PM by Gene

That news hacks are cutting back on their 9/11 flashbacks this year is due no doubt to the backlash over their psychotic obsession of last year, when they came dangerously close to recreating the original panic. That we lose nothing for the lack of wall-to-wall headbeatings may be gleaned from this bit of poetry and philosophy by a CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) stooge. Just mention the day now and you get the same kind of mental gas expulsions that used to smell up stories on JFK's death, or 1968, or Vietnam, the kind of all-purpose Crrrronkitian platitudes beloved of the business -- "the end of innocence," blah blah blah. But the twentieth century did a lot of screwing up of a lot of people, and we can hardly expect different from its successor, thus far a successor in too many bad ways. And more to the point, I must again quote Dr. Johnson: "Grief is a species of idleness."

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