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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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Saturday, October 11, 2003

Posted 3:20 PM by Gene

Is there ever such a thing as an "outsider"? Ah-NULT campaigned as one, but he's the consummate show-biz insider, and has used lots of the same tired old insiders like St. Warren of Buffett and George "Tiger on his Tail" Shultz and Dave "Hooray for Hollywood" Dreier as advisers. WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! may have started out as a lowly soda jerk or whatever, but making millions and rubbing elbows with JACK aren't exactly an outsider's behaviors. The Professor may have started with a blog but now he commands sixteen different media connections and a billion hits a minute. No, once you get the power, you're an insider. And it's wearying to always be on the outside looking in.

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