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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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Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Posted 8:34 AM by Gene

I don't know where the PR types get this idea that Andy Griffith's show was a colossus for the ages -- possibly because time's distance permits it to tower over today's electronic pigmys. (Possibly also because it allows snobby six- and seven-digit news hacks to pull their fake Our Town routine to prove they're pee-pul too.) No, it was bubble gum for the soul, simple, predictable, unfunny, inoffensive. Saying that it's a cove of refuge in a topsy-turvy world is dime-store news-hack philosophy. To be sure, its celebrated cast deserves credit for taking peoples' minds off their problems, and I revere ol' Andy as much as anyone, but the fact that TV couldn't do better when it could have made a difference (Andy premiered a year before Newton Minow's "vast wasteland" speech) is a reason it's so much worse now.

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