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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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Sunday, January 18, 2004

Posted 9:08 AM by Gene

PUBLICITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION: Some CLOWN decides to accept at FACE VALUE an executive's claim that his company got more out of the naming rights to a stadium than it put in. To me this is worse than what Jayson did. I'll say it again: Jayson fibbed for the fun of it. This CLOWN accepts a made-up assertion in the name of root-root-rooting for the home team. We can laugh off Jaysons, for their fun, despite the hand-wringing and woe-is-meing, is largely harmless; we can't laugh off these PR CLOWNS, because they broadcast flat-out half-truths (and frequently, LIES) in utter SERIOUSNESS.

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