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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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Thursday, November 24, 2005

Posted 9:58 AM by Gene

Reminiscence is a dangerous thing, especially when someone like Jimson Dickey attempts it. In honoring Hugh Sidey he unfortunately reminds us of a piece in one of ST. WARREN's sister outlets in which Jack Shafer tells us that Hugh was close enough friends with "Henry" to call his judgment into doubt -- and when news hacks honor their fellow scribblers they honor themselves. We will leave Hugh and his friendships at peace, but Jimson has now made it quite difficult for us to forget them.

He makes the process well nigh impossible with sentences like these:

Ours is a new age, and a different one. We can hope that responsibility, decency and common sense eventually will win out, but it's hard to spot any positive trends.

Those EEEEEEEEEEEVIL Republicans are to blame. We know, we know. But when you kiss up to your sources isn't that another kind of bad?

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