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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, September 09, 2005

Posted 10:33 AM by Gene

News hackery has come to resemble a superkingdom with lots of mini-kingdoms, each mini-kingdom populated by scribblers who could not communicate intelligently with other mini-kingdoms if they tried. Because most hacks stay in one assignment practically their whole careers they guarantee each mini-kingdom is sealed off from others, though there be no impediments to communication. Thus a sports hack cannot intelligently write on foreign affairs, nor a Congressional correspondent on the movies -- not that we'd expect ANY news hack to write intelligently on ANYTHING.

This may help explain among other things why TV ad-blurb copywriters are increasingly prone to raves and sycophancy. With no points of reference save the limited ones of watching a tube and attending their annual shindigs on the coast, they've effectively blocked themselves off from people who might not believe the medium has become the greatest invention since the wheel -- people like their readers. Readers? What are READERS?

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