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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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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Posted 8:41 AM by Gene

News hacks think that by pruning things like the width of the paper they insure their survival. They would never think that it's what's ON the paper that matters; and narrowing the page an inch or an inch and a half or five inches or printing it tabloid or in green ink will not change the INVINCIBLE AURA OF SUPERIORITY at a place like THE PAPER OF RE-CORD.

One can be sure the paper's little guys will get fired long before any of our SAINTED TRUTH TELLERS.

(Via the inevitable ROMY)

P. S. Indeed; it's firing 250 little guys -- and is making up for the loss of width by adding more pages. LET THEM EAT NEWSPRINT!

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