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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, June 15, 2006

Posted 8:14 AM by Gene

Dan Blather's determined to hold on to his job -- first by his arms, then by his wrists, then his hands than his fingers, then his fingertips, then his fingernails. Now Jim McKay's son has come to wrench them away. This is surely not the way THE CONSCIENCE OF TV NEWS wanted it to end -- not in a WITCHHUNT by the EXTREME RIGHT, and the sneers of his fellow zillionaires. Yes, Dan Blather is determined -- and that's why he's a zero.

"Anchoring, to some degree, is misunderstood and overrated by people from the outside," says Rather. "When you're the anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News, you're the face of CBS News. It is a leadership role...."

This is also why Dan will be out of a job in November: he takes it SERIOUSLY.

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