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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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Friday, June 18, 2004

Posted 6:36 AM by Gene

I have HAD IT with NEWS HACKS POPPING THE BUBBLY EVERY TIME THERE'S A MEDIA MERGER. These celebrations only underline their intense desire to see the industry as big and as consolidated as possible, so they can apply the second titanium glove of their power to the first one over an already stainless-steel fist. Their industry will do ANYTHING to accrete power -- witness CIRCULATION INFLATION, a story NEWS HACKS, in their ORGANIZATION-MAN mode, will do EVERYTHING to bury.

GRAYDON and the ad-blurb copywriters' effusions over A NEW GOLDEN AGE OF ENTERTAINMENT are reason enough for the HACKS to have forfeit their last shred of credibility.

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