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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, October 18, 2005

Posted 12:51 PM by Gene

Romy is trying to restart this STUPID DEBATE over the TRAGEDY of so many YOUNG PEOPLE disdaining JERNALISM for PR. I'll say it AGAIN: as currently practiced there is LITTLE DIFFERENCE between REPORTING and FLACKERY. For as long as we've had a PARTISAN PRESS it's indulged in SPIN, and that goes back to before JOHN PETER ZENGER. With the Internet tearing down the physical wall between the luxury news suite and the public-affairs office we see how the two professions have FAR TOO MUCH IN COMMON. Many PR types are former NEWS HACKS, further diminishing the differences to a philosophical level. No, it is HEALTHY that people disdain such angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin musings, for they have nothing to do with REAL LIFE, and as people instinctively know that, however torrid the talk, however plaintive the mea culpas, NEWS HACKS WILL ALWAYS SPIN AND SELL as they're just PRESS AGENTS WITH A "CALLING."

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