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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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Thursday, September 18, 2003

Posted 5:25 PM by Gene

There are three ways to view Stephen King's National Book Award. The first is that a claque of snobs, ruling over an exhausted art form and sneering like elitists in the worst sense, is talking to itself. The second is that this self-same claque is showing its dollars-and-cents hypocritical side. The third is strictly glibertarian: he's sold zillions of books, therefore he's good. Part of this is jealousy; what navel starer wouldn't trade in his Sahara-desiccate prose for some of King's millions? And part of it is, not to put too fine a shading on it, he's a hack. To his credit, King's giving the money back to the National Book Foundation. On the other hand, it's $10,000, and he doesn't need it.

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