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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 01, 2006

Posted 5:06 PM by Gene

Today our StinkyInky decided to sell our city's CONDO BOOM!!!!!!!!!!, and in a flash I saw the danger of the new fad of 100 "independent" newspaper fiefdoms: these budding Annenbergs will spend all day shaking down advertisers and promising favors, making whole sections like the real-estate pages into truth-free zones (as if they aren't already); meantime they'll placate the luxury news suites with promises of "freedom" -- and the hacks clearly know which freedoms to circumvent (no exposés on our advertisers), meaning continued wall-to-wall persecutions of conservatives and Republicans. In short, the papers become even more sales pitches and press releases and propaganda arms. How do you pay your expensive debt with that?

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