Eugene David
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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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Friday, July 14, 2006

Posted 5:40 PM by Gene

The other day (and we'd rather not have mentioned it) a woman jumped or fell to her death from the garage across from where we live, and already the obligatory small bushel of flowers has grown around a nearby tree. We remember how a young woman was beaten to death with a baseball bat near the Whole Foods on South Street while dozens of the famously tolerant denizens of that thoroughfare looked blankly on, and how flowers grew up on that site too, and withered away. Lady Di's brief return to the news summons the memory of England's grotesque fit of Oprahism, of how that broken empire became a veritable mortuary covered with flowers and bathos. The best way to remember an untimely death is to campaign for better policing, or open the checkbook and finance a suicide prevention center. Flowers rot, in several ways.

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