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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, December 08, 2005

Posted 6:28 AM by Gene

We wonder if the hacks are Goebbellizing over A GREAT ARTIST as a reflection of their own mortality. Twenty-five years ago news hacks seemed to be on a permanent ascendant, ready to oust any president and send any number of millions to perdition. Then came Janet Cooke, then the appointment of the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL Ronald Reagan, and despite the triumph of News-for-Dummies in USAOKAY!!!!! things have gone downhill since. Now the industry, though wading in dough, faces an uncertain future (meaning 10-percent profits rather than 20), and great Boomer writers like Robert "Over the" Hilburn are being shown the door, and truly immortal Boomers like Woodstein are close to decamping to their mansions, and what is left? Things were so much sweeter in 1980, during a hostage crisis.

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