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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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Sunday, November 13, 2005

Posted 6:04 PM by Gene

I suppose this must count as progress in PINCH'S KINGDOM: the PAPER OF RE-CORD mentions that ERRAMERICA's "on the far end of the AM dial" (meaning Christian stations outdraw it, which is pitiful), it mentions THE LOAN, and it mentions that "Mr. Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are bigger brand names", which is rather like saying that Toyota was a bigger brand name than Yugo. But it is hard not to hear the fervent prayers for this great talk-radio outlet, even though news hacks usually pray for nothing but themselves, and their prayers sound like chants in a coven.

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