Eugene David
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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, May 16, 2005

Posted 9:43 AM by Gene

I must confess my true reaction to L'AFFAIRE DE TOILETTE is one of weariest resignation. Each new abdication of responsibility is merely the same as the last; irresponsibility, we soon figure, is a cost of doing business these buffoons are willing to pay. Otherwise nothing changes, and our media masters remain ever firmly in control. The situation is less a democracy's than a dictatorship's, where a hopeless mass sees no means of sundering the shackles, and sighs plaintively for the white knight who never appears. Nor will it hurt BLUNDER's circulation, for most of its subscribers do not read it. (I feel sorry for the subscription clerks who must already be near a nervous breakdown; they must take responsibility for others. That's why, through it all, Mr. Mark smiles.)

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