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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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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Posted 3:43 PM by Gene

There will be a problem with stories like this: just as the news hacks are conditioned to go KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH!, now we have become conditioned to look for the traits that mark sneaky reporting: the use of "some", the careful hiding of important information, and with stories like this, the singing of the PATRIOTIC RAG in the FIRST GRAFS. These IDIOTS are not paying the slightest attention to their circulations, their ratings, their reputations -- and that appears to be fine with them.

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