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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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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Posted 5:42 PM by Gene

The true difference between the two ossified sides parading for the opinion magazines is the degree of their smugness. Saunter through The Corner and you often get a certain kind of blaseness, the notion that standing on principle may not be wise or even necessary. Hop down The Plank (round a bend and off a plank) and you can't escape the shadow of the ultimate table-pounding eager beaver Stephen Glass. The Ivy League's likewise inescapable: just as JO-nah can't shake his collegiate cockiness so you get the feeling TNR's guys can't douse the glow of their internships. This fight between these two breeds of supersnobs is the proverbial candle lit at both ends, and even before this mutual burning there's no candle.

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