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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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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Posted 5:53 PM by Gene

Now that the agonizing Amish saga has "ended" am I the only person who thinks the coverage stunk? I've often complained of the fake Our Town routine the hacks slather on stories about the pee-PUL, but this was worse: they seemed to be reporting on Martians. The Amish are strange, and their intense desire for privacy must ultimately make any reporting voyeuristic; but take the fact that few if any hacks attend church, and combine it with the fact that they couldn't really report firsthand, and you got speculative bathos. This was the Kremlin in Dutchland. Neither the Plain People nor the story were served by this latest attempt of news hacks to scribble their way around a problem.

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