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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, September 11, 2005

Posted 8:39 AM by Gene

Meantime KnightRidder flexes its vast flabby muscles and says EVERYONE was responsible, a welcome change from IT'S ALL DUBYA'S FAULT. But at what point does the public, overwhelmed by hacks saying whomever or whatever was responsible, simply tune out every last finger-pointing story as the same old same old? All that ANGER, all that SPINE is likely to come to nothing, for no small reason thanks to how the press has uncovered PREVIOUS DISASTERS WAITING TO HAPPEN, and because we've long known NEWS HACKS don't want to tell THE TRUTH, but A TRUTH.

Or to put it another way, we probably won't know anymore with 500 terabytes more facts crammed into our skulls than we knew before. When will the HACKS learn FACTS aren't necessarily INFORMATION?

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