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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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Friday, November 14, 2003

Posted 5:44 PM by Gene

Buzz TWXster INSISTS: "News is a conversation. Let's say that again and etch it in brass: News is a conversation." Etching it in brass or on stone or having God rearrange the stars to spell it out won't change the truth: News is DICTATION. It's people telling us how to think and what to buy. It's a tidal wave of words, a force of nature no army of electronic peashooters can fight. It's a kazillion-dollar industry, evil brother of another kazillion-dollar industry, that broaches no criticism, that admits to no wrong, that just by existing is inalterably right. NEWS IS DICTATION.

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