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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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Monday, January 23, 2006

Posted 9:17 AM by Gene

A nation needs strong political magazines, and for that and other reasons we are very sorry to hear The New Leader is folding. We are told it was a powerful voice for truth, and we for a second wouldn't doubt a magazine that ran Solzhenitsyn and Dr. King was precisely that, though much of its truth came from before we started reading the magazine in the seventies, and that was largely due to John Simon's theater reviews, and that Serb was at his (as they must say) acerbic best then. But people don't read magazines anymore, only coffee tables do, and when people seem fit to read them it's for the pictures.

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