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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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Posted 6:20 AM by Gene

We see it now: untold soldiers pumping out the water and distributing the necessities of life, untold construction and maintenance workers clearing the rubble and the roads and the stench, untold doctors and nurses healing the sick, untold engineers and linemen restoring power, untold carpenters and electricians and plumbers rebuilding homes and schools and businesses.

From the vantage point of the hacks and the pols and the pundits, all is gloom and doom with a smirk, and the chance for grand larceny and oppression of one's fellow man an eternal hope. But how can one doubt, as these cretins recede into their richly-deserved nothing, that this catastrophe has become a story of unprecedented HEROISM. We will have redeemed ourselves, if only we knew.

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