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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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Posted 1:45 PM by Gene

If I could I'd challenge anyone in the news biz to DARE tell me the difference between the PIECE OF JUNK I linked with in the last post and a PRESS RELEASE. Sure there's a marginal attempt to be skeptical, but for nine-tenths of its length it's SELL SELL SELL. Some of the WORST PR appears in trade Web sites. You'd think people in the biz would demand not to be larded over with such nonsense. But no -- they dispense it themselves.

On the strength of this BILGEWATER I may soon start a new blog dedicated solely to NEUHARTHISMS. To be sure that would be zero divided by two; but at least with this I'd have a chance to connect with some of the holier-than-thou types among the scribblers, and maybe get them to tone down their act -- slightly.

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