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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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Friday, August 19, 2005

Posted 11:51 AM by Gene

We are sorry Jules Witcover must retire from his paper before taking care of this unnecessary and calamitous war. But the history of the news biz is full of powerful sages turned threadbare with the march of time. We need look no further than Jules's own Sun, home of the Menck, once a mighty social critic, now almost universally regarded as little more than a comedian and a crank. Walter Lippmann, Drew Pearson, Westbrook Pegler, household names -- what happened to them? We are somehow not surprised that Jules started his Sun career under an editor named Jack Lemmon; the news biz is about nothing so much as comedy, and getting the last laugh on the reader. Alas, posterity has its ways. Goodbye Jules. Watch the door on the way out.

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