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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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Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Posted 1:01 PM by Gene

Today I was in a Mickey D's -- the eateries near my workplace serve, well, I'll leave it to your imagination -- and it was playing Hispanic soft-rock ballads (the first time I was there it played that sound-alike salsa), and I thought to myself, God, if only there were a Hispanic Harry Warren! His music would sweep the world! But alas, if my soujourn at the Mick's is typical, all we have are Hispanic Elton Johns and Meat Loafs, and not very good ones at that, and they know every cliche in the foreground-Muzak book, and I walked away from the Mickey D's humming no tune.

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