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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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Monday, December 29, 2003

Posted 11:12 AM by Gene

As I said yesterday, we don't need pop-culture departments when we have The New York Times, and here's another example. No one would care for these firefly no-talents like Vin "Sky Masterson" Diesel except the news hacks must always gotta get (or rather, sell) their latest gimmick, and that gimmick is meta- (or is that andro-) ethnicity. Honest, it's as if Howell still runs this rag. (I wouldn't have paid mind to it but there's a picture of one of these temporary stars, and she reminds me of an inamorata from college, only she had black hair.)

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