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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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Saturday, December 10, 2005

Posted 8:26 AM by Gene

When first we saw this CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES press release we thought, sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh, People Warner again (it's a RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), but then we got to thinking, media have gotten folks to thinking the best way to redemption is to make an utter fool of yourself, and to be in the worst possible taste -- in short, to expose yourself in public. And then we wonder why so few have a good reputation. Here is another reason we hold news hacks in the kind of esteem we reserve for mass murderers -- and mass murderers only kill people; news hacks kill brains -- and why, even if every last newspaper and news-gathering organization went out of business, their toxic influence would remain.

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