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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, September 05, 2005

Posted 8:18 AM by Gene

The NEW CW: The HACKS sounded the clarion call for New Orleans to do SOMETHING. The problem with this is even if a dozen five-part articles appeared in the last three or four years they would have been drowned out in the news noise, and people could easily dismiss them as "what-ifs." With some probing we could find half-a-dozen or more stories warning of Osama's cockroaches, and here there is even less excuse for the hacks' indifference because all humanity was at risk, not a town or two. Five hundred such series would not rouse INCOMPETENTS -- do we need proof? -- but news hacks can still delude themselves into thinking they perform a PUBLIC SERVICE. What is more, the Times-Picayune, so heroic at the moment, is owned by SI, whose news inclinations lean more toward PARIS than New Orleans.

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