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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, January 13, 2005

Posted 5:02 PM by Gene

I have said before an age that lives by highlight reels won't live. MJ may be the greatest of hoopsters, but in the essentials, he's a cipher, a man without a personality, the most uninteresting human being ever to be a sports superstar. Calling him "enigmatic" doesn't make him more interesting. Calling him "corporate" will not disguise that he'll no doubt have middling business success, like other sports "LEGENDS."

And we need 1,111 WORDS from a contributor to the Boston Globe, Esquire and NPR (if that isn't the literary equivalent of BUUUUUUUUUURP) to tell us that?

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