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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, September 22, 2006

Posted 3:32 PM by Gene

(Fill in the blank with the sound of a man expelling a great deal of gas): Any scribbler who can use that sulfurous cliche "afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted" or some variation thereof most surely thinks he know all to the universe -- and we wouldn't disabuse him of that notion except, perhaps, for two things: 1. The news biz (and I've said this too often before) comforts the comfortable (show-biz megazillionaires) and afflicts the afflicted (the victims of tainted spinach and their families); and 2. The news biz was once run by the forces of right-wing reaction. Now it's run by the forces of left-wing reaction. What's the difference? (I've said that before too.)

Such are the perils of planning an IPO these days.

(Via MediaBistro and, alas, THE NEW! IMPROVED!! NRO!!!)

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