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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, November 15, 2005

Posted 8:30 AM by Gene

And speaking of nightly news and blogs -- another new fad! We believe the fad's sincere but would point out most of the over-80s who watch the Three Stooges for denture-cleanser recommendations probably don't own a computer. And as with any corporate communication we can't be sure who writes these blogs; the networks have no doubt assigned dozens of interns just to writing blogs. And these little gestures of humanization do not address the wide, deep misanthropic streak behind broadcast entertainment, or that for over fifty years network news organizations believed they could get along without the public, a notion we suspect has not been entirely vanished from those luxury news suites.

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