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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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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Posted 1:50 PM by Gene

I must pay more attention to Romenesko's excessively selective Letters page (no conservatives or people making under $250,000 a year, please). The writers are just as excessively self-centered: one complaining about the roof-raising "scandal" that THE WHITE HOUSE DAY-CARE CENTER MUST SUBMIT QUESTIONS TO DUBYA IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!!!; another from the "entertainment editor and movie critic, Buffalo Alternative Press" about USA Okay's crossword puzzles (hey buddy, consider yourself lucky that you got to speak to executive assistants); more head-beatings against walls about the bosses of USA Okay's executive assistants -- in short, if you want to know what most news hacks are not-thinking, turn to Romenesko's Letters page.

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