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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Sunday, July 02, 2006

Posted 9:57 AM by Gene

WHY WE CANNOT TRUST NEWS HACKS: Here Mr. Mark goes and puts THE GREATEST FILM OF THE DECADE on his cover, so what does his chief cinematic sales pitcher and ad-blurbist do? He calls it "an overproduced movie that tries so strenuously hard to be 'fun' that it's a chore to sit through." (Thankfully he does it during our print vacation, which makes it even more seemly.) Honest Mr. Mark (you honest?), if you knew this was going to be another piece of celluloid junk (and we suspect you did -- rather, we KNOW you did), why did you slug half your rag "ADVERTISEMENT"? You may think there's no connection between your risible typing and, say, USAOKAY!!!!!'s P-Ulitzer-winning nose thumbing, but there is: both start on questionable self-serving assumptions, and both get flung back in your expensive faces.

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