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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, February 22, 2004

Posted 6:53 PM by Gene

Here's one for Terry Teachout, and I'm sending this to him by e-mail: Sir, am I the only person put off by the overpowering PR for SLUTSVILLE and GORY FOR GLORY? Am I the only person thinking these alleged masterpieces of our time won't last -- in no small measure because they are (or should be) verboten for young people, exactly the audience needed to preserve art? You don't need an age restriction on Huck Finn (though I might put it off limits to some educators). And you should know this one, Mr. Teachout: Menck always touted Joseph Hergesheimer's novels, and he almost single-handedly got Sinclair Lewis's Main Street in print. He called these works "genius." Who reads them anymore? When news hacks tout something with one voice (and especially through their 50 gigawatt megaphone) that alone should put the bug of suspicion in our minds. (I'm not knocking Lewis, by the way, because Babbitt is one of my few fiction favorites.)

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