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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, November 12, 2006

Posted 10:39 AM by Gene

I wish I knew exactly who Malcolm Jones is, for he is at least as full of it as any writer in the history of newsrags -- somehow the forgotten reviewer Jack Kroll comes to mind. (Forgotten, that is, except by anyone who had to read him.) We too read of the murder of this actress, and DA NOOZ ran a picture of her on its home page that showed she was appealing, in an oddball way. But to liken her to Lana Turner (and that's what he does) shows the kind of obtuseness we expect from hacks trying to make a point. (More so under the circumstances -- and especially as this was first thought a suicide.) Isn't a murder bad enough without their trying to caboose significance onto it?

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