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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 01, 2004

Posted 3:23 PM by Gene

This is the last time I make this point, but how many six- and seven-digit NEWS HACKS are credentialed for the SUPER BORE? (This story says 3,000, which sounds low.) How many journalists (a term I reserve for, say, Ernie Pyle) slogged through the Mideast, and South Asia, and the depth and breadth of the Muslim world, to research fundamentalist Islam and Osama bin Laden, to assure our day of reckoning would not happen? NEWS HACKS can wail until Hell freezes over about how many of their colleagues died in Iraq, but when was the last time a reporter put himself in danger of life and limb pursuing the truth (as opposed to transcribing a story, which is definitely not the same thing)? How many today will kvetch about the hotel and the parking and the food and the press center?

Sorry, executive editor of the AP (who's probably in Houston "supervising" her wire service's logorrhea), NEWS HACKS DESERVE ALL THE CRITICISM THEY CAN GET.

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