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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, August 18, 2006

Posted 6:41 AM by Gene

I have not posted on the JonBenet story because we've been filled to our gills with it a hundred times over, but the notion this "confession" may be fake does not surprise me; we've seen a bit too much of the "killer's" face these last few days, and once again the press displays the thoroughgoing credulousness that propelled it (and the public) into endless titillating cul-de-sacs.

Jack "The Lecturer" Shafer says the press did a superb job. OR:

But my reading of the mainstream coverage of the case is this: When the press behaved in an amateurish fashion, it was generally because they were relying on amateurish investigation by the police and prosecutor. As the press came to realize authorities were doofuses, over their heads and out of control, coverage became sharper and more skeptical.

TRANSLATION: NOT OUR FAULT. PFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!

Who is Jack Shafer and when does he become a high-paid PERFESSER of JERNALISM?

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