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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 9:34 AM by Gene

One thing about news hacks is they're like rubber bands: they can twist themselves into all sorts of tangles and still think they can spring back to normal even when hopelessly tangled. Tom's insistence that "Mr. and Mrs. Median" are doing okay is a sop from a rag that cares only about Mr. and Mrs. (or rather, Mistress) Moneybags, and it's clear the author has to struggle a little to believe what he's writing, and we're not sure why Little Malcolm ran it, unless he's running for president again.

And he would seem to undercut his reluctant argument by noting more mothers are working, and $46,326 a year does not seem like a lot of money to us, even with all that wonderful technology.

Here's another reason we can't stand news hacks: they live on Mt. Olympus.

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