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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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Monday, January 17, 2005

Posted 9:21 AM by Gene

Possibly I'm not looking hard enough, but I notice there is not as much HECTORING on this day as on such days past. What I mean, of course, is NEWS HACKS LECTURING US ON RACE RELATIONS. Possibly they've come to realize that in a year topped by BLATHERGATE they're in no position to lecture us on anything. The sad thing is, we need a national conscience. Problem is, news hacks suffer from a SELECTIVE CONSCIENCE, all too eagerly yelling at us for our foibles but keeping stone quiet on their own, or their ideology's. This year is the perfect time to let this holiday become what it was destined to become -- another day off for the civil service, another excuse for department-store ads.

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