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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 5:26 PM by Gene

The Saturday Evening Post, Life -- the former once among the most distinguished of magazines, the latter perhaps the most exciting. Today they're a quack-nostrum catalog and a sputtering newspaper insert, wan descendants of their glories. We wonder how much today's newsrags will be missed. The TWXSTERS' version, lest we forget, acquired the carcass of something called The Literary Digest, a successful newsrag that went out of business after conducting a notorious self-selected (!) telephone poll predicting Alf Landon would be voted president. With their mix of bland service features, show-biz puffery and active political disinformation the newsrags occupy a decreasing niche of our attention, and while fifty years ago the world would have been unimaginable without them, outside doctors' offices and classrooms the world is increasingly imaginable without them.

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