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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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Posted 8:04 AM by Gene

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the HACKS' intransigence may owe something to the Web and talk radio: the biz can claim it's merely counteracting a powerful conservative influence. The idea that there is a HIGHER TRUTH, indeed that there's any TRUTH at all other than what WE call truth, seems quite passe these days in the luxury news suites.

JOKE OF THE DAY:

The mainstream media’s lack of interest in [ST. CINDY's] little verbal grenades is astonishing. According to a computer search, not one of them made it into news coverage by the New York Times. The Times has a public editor, or ombudsman, who might want to ask why.

A public WHAT?

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