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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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Sunday, April 24, 2005

Posted 12:25 PM by Gene

Even as it throws a mighty tantrum over A LOBBYIST'S CREDIT CARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, ST. WARREN's favorite mass of idle wood pulp tries to find a -- TREND in today's musical masterpieces. That Perfesser Thompson is missing is only because this isn't television. And yet in a sense it is, for these entertainments revolve around what THE PAPER OF RE-CORD's own blurbist Ben has called "singing cartoons and dancing robots." But instead of writing intelligently and critically about them, ST. WARREN's scribbler must assume the Thinker's pose with a marble head, and let forth with an exertion that is less writing than it is the lifting of a leg and a subsequent gleeful gas expulsion. Banging the keyboard about CREDIT CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! does not excuse this kind of weightless buncombe, nor will such tripe keep readers from fleeing the daily rags in ever increasing droves.

A quite THOUGHTFUL (pffh-hh-hh) NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK award to PETER!

(Linked through ArtsJournal.com, which has an uncanny way of linking to some VERY irritating word extrusions.)

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