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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, December 02, 2003

Posted 8:27 AM by Gene

Here are two reasons you can't find a decent interview on TV: LARRY KING and LOLLIPOP LOU DOBBS. It's a matter of symbiosis: when CNN wants interviews it wants high-profile exclusives, and the kind of interviewees CNN wants don't like tough questions. Thus if RICHARD MICKEYMOUSE NIXON, say, wanted to state his case why he'll live forever, CNN would be more than happy to route him to the bulbous former business hack (who'd probably ask, "Michael, your stock has staged a comeback in recent months. What do you plan to do to keep the momentum going?") or ESPECIALLY TO LARRY, who has higher ratings (and who'd CERTAINLY ask, "Mike, gotta question, what's your favorite cartoon character?") The kind of horsetrading that marked this network's egregious conduct in Iraq continues through these two no-talent frauds, and the public gets the blunt end of it always.

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