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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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Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Posted 5:37 PM by Gene

TRANSLATION: The Trib had a Ben Bradlee who moved it from one kind of bad (the "Col." screaming bloody murder at any reporter who disagreed with him and turning the paper into one long intolerable slant) to another (always lobbying for the forces of right using weasel words, meantime making sure to be excessively show-biz synergistic). This obit merely underlines what I said in one of my first posts: "It scarcely matters, then, whether the press is right-wing reactionary or left-wing reactionary: it will always be reactionary."

And he died on the same week TRIB admitted to CIRCULATION INFLATION at its New York rag. I will admit his moon landing front page was a masterpiece. May he rest in peace.

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