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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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Saturday, January 24, 2004

Posted 3:21 PM by Gene

The other day Buzz got EXCITED that his dear friend HOWARD is doing a TALK SHOW. Forget it. Howard is no dummy; he knows the only way CNN's biggies LARRY and LOLLIPOP LOU get their stream of guests is by laying off them. (His competitor IMUS the INSIDER knows this too, which explains his repeat customers among the Beltway liars.) So he'll bury his tough question -- ONE tough question -- under a mound of shtick; and his guests, if mortified by the ONE tough question, know in the end they get their PR, he gets his ratings. (Or so he thinks; the POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seems to forget HOWARD bombed big time with a TV version of his radio show.) The vapid TV celebrity interview remains unchanged.

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