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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, April 09, 2006

Posted 1:15 PM by Gene

Speaking of Hollywood hacks, we should have commented earlier on this CORNER entry about the Masters. Somehow we are not surprised to learn that "An SI poll found that almost 90 percent of Tour players said invading Iraq was a good idea, and zero had seen Brokeback Mountain." (Nor are we surprised that Jim Nantz tap-danced around that, but we'll forgive him as we like him, and his former college dormmate Boom Boom's one of his best friends.) Just as show-biz types are college professors with looks and luck -- and if the Best Ac-TOR of 2005 is any indication, just luck -- so golfers are Realtors®, Babbitts to the nth degree and the 19th hole. Warren (a con-SER-va-tive Hollywood hack) is pleased, but he would be as they're his kind of conformists. Is it any wonder, with people retreating to their own nasally-congested hermetically-sealed warrens like the Hollywood hacks and the golfers, that we speak politics to each other with such vitriol?

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