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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, May 27, 2006

Posted 10:11 AM by Gene

Even if this alleged massacre in Iraq is confirmed, even if it is shown to be totally premeditated and unjustified, it will likely remain a subsurface affair, though news hacks try to spin it. Why? Because we still remember, after over thirty years, how the hacks sold atrocities in Vietnam. Massacres should anger us, but we must remember there's always a low-level hope here, the hope that such stories can get us packing from Iraq. That we can guess its outcome does not seem to deter news hacks into wanting it. But even those opposed to the war must sense it. And they can recall Vietnam too.

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