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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, February 15, 2005

Posted 9:45 AM by Gene

KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! Arthur Miller's death has become a KNEE-JERK THING. ON THE LEFT, E. J., one of the most tiresome columnists of any stripe, calls the late playwright courageous, and as we know from reading too many predictable op-edders, praise like this is usually self-directed. ON THE RIGHT, Terry Teachout, writing for THE WALL STREET JOURNALS CONSERVATIVE EDITION'S FREELOADERS REVIEW, says Miller was bad, presumably because he was -- LIBERAL, and while I respect and admire Mr. Teachout he's done the well-it's-my-employer-so-I'll-parrot-its-politics shtick before. That said, I am more inclined to believe Mr. Teachout, in part because 10,000 NEWS HACKS said the same things about Arthur Miller last week, in part because the only things E. J. reads are his own columns.

I stick by my obituary.

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