Eugene David
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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, November 04, 2006

Posted 4:33 PM by Gene

America seems to be having a collective nervous breakdown. Is our vaunted interconnectedness to blame? Here's more circular behavior: We must follow every last bit of trivia on the Web, and when we're angry enough we type about it, thinking we can influence the uninfluenceable, and when nothing changes we type more, and get angrier. In some ways a computer is worse than a TV because where TV is a mere pacifier, a computer ties an interactive rope around you -- and it.

The time may soon come when we'll be as moved to throw our computers out the windows as we are our TVs.

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