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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 15, 2003

Posted 6:25 AM by Gene

Here's something worthy of the NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY, if I could fit it in: a movie-ad-blurb copywriter really really likes something, so he calls it "one of the greatest achievements in film history." Leaving aside whether this hack Jack knows jack about film history (his knowledge probably doesn't extend back beyond, oh, the beginning of film history, circa 1967, as with most copywriters), there are surely quite a few masterworks in all of culture that got bombed by reviewers -- and even far more junk that got idiot raves couldn't stand the test of time. I can cite one in the Maya Lin memorial, which some hack calls "a cliche" after only two decades. And I must say it again: you hacks were wrongwrongwrong on Iraq, so how can we trust you on anything else? So Jack, next time, if you really really like something, just say it, and don't insult your readers' intelligence with job hunting.

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