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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, February 17, 2005

Posted 1:39 PM by Gene

Do news hacks and political corruption walk hand-in-hand? We may wonder. I'd like to know how many big-city newspaper endorsements of the last fifty years went to DEMOCRATIC mayoral and city-council candidates. THE WORLD'S SECOND GREATEST NEWSPAPER endorsed Marion "CRACKHEAD" Barry THREE TIMES. Sixteen months ago KNIGHTRIDDER's idea of a tabloid, in the middle of a non-stop circulation slump and a campaign to be RIGHT-ON, WITH-IT and NOW to try to stop the non-stop, endorsed our increasingly dubious mayor for re-election. When NEWS HACKS stump for these machine candidates they are themselves de-facto members of the machines, with all the ODORS that REEK THEREFROM. Truly the ANYBODY-BUT-REPUBLICANS mindset of NEWS HACKS has FAILED AMERICA'S CITIES, Philadelphia not THE LEAST.

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