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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, February 14, 2004

Posted 8:50 PM by Gene

If we accept that this year's presidential campaign will be the "dirtiest ever," this is excellent news for the media ruling class, because it means more negative ads, which keep the vote down, and more money for more negative ads, which keeps the profits up, and more endless blather by NEWS HACKS injecting themselves into every facet of the campaign, which means with every voter discouraged by the negative ads our weasel words gain that much more power, and a greater hope we can repeat FIASCO 2000, in which we decided to decide the race before it was decided, leading to lots of voters staying home and lots and lots more voters being angry afterwards. And before we blather about THE WEB, remember, FIASCO 2000 had a large Web presence -- an ultimately irrelevant one, as BIGMEDIA triumphed.

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