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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, October 22, 2006

Posted 9:10 AM by Gene

And here's another reason we can't stand the hacks: this constant self-granting of favors. We said before we were skeptical of Gregg Easterbrook's notion that TV may be linked to autism, largely as we're so skeptical of social-science number crunchers in the first place; but when a typist like Claudia calls the link "bizarre" the first thing into our peon-like heads is WHO EMPLOYS HER, and how far she can go touting the corporate line; because, for all the talk of independence, if there's one thing that carries you far in the news biz, it's TOADYING, and we can resent stories like this even if they tell the truth, because we're so used to all the SLOP-BUCKET CARRYING.

A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD to CLAUDIA!

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