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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, March 20, 2004

Posted 5:19 PM by Gene

A MEA CULPA: In several posts I've mentioned the STERNO gang's obsession over bad dirty jokes. I might understand the occasional dirty joke if it were funny, or witty. And I must confess that in my never-to-be-published college satire I have a few jokes of the questionable kind. But I know without hearing them what kind of jokes STERNO's favorites spew over the air, and as I must say again, STERNO, some forms of expression are far more worthy of FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTION than BAD ADOLESCENTS' dirty jokes.

One other thing: the Metropolitan Opera is in danger of losing its radio voice thanks to its inability to attract sponsors; yet BAD DIRTY JOKES seem to draw millions in ads. How can you defend this, STERNO?

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