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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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Thursday, December 16, 2004

Posted 4:44 PM by Gene

I should have known the London ad-blurb copywriters would have gone bonkers for this one, for several reasons: first off, the West End is a tourist trap just behind Broadway that has become the very definition of BAD. Second, it's seen more profitable days and obviously needs the lift of a few well-timed adjectives. Third, titans of industry like Lord Lloud Wubbish and Lord Schlockintosh shipped hundreds of thousands of tons of heavy machinery to the Main Stem, efficient in its day and long-lasting but in the end prone to total failure and unsalvageable. This sounds like another attempt to restart the British export trade. Fourth, having seen their empire reduced from globe-straddling to telly-gazing the British obsessively feel the need for a domestic pick-me-up. And fifth, some very hyperactive scribblers were obliged to prove once again that old saw that the British news hack need not be bribed.

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