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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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Sunday, March 05, 2006

Posted 10:23 AM by Gene

CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of the Prophet Mohammed because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself.

That evil old cartoon's back in the news.

Yesterday we were musing, the fifth anniversary of 9/11 comes up in six months. How will the hacks report it? Will they make it as inoffensive as possible? Will they turn it into an accident, or a natural disaster? Will we see miles of yellow ribbons and flowers popping up all over, and not even one flag? Given how these cretinous cowards hid under their desks lately, and there's precious little sign they've come out, we think we know the answer.

P. S. The disclaimer's gone, but its insidious influence lives on.

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