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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 4:30 PM by Gene

If I were a chief news hack I'd do the undoable -- ban public-opinion polls and reporting thereon. They create a circular story: news hacks commission polls, then report on the reactions, then do follow-up polling, then more reactions, then on and on into infinity. Indeed the whole point of the public-opinion gag is to influence elections. No one can calculate the space and time such cat's-tail chasing takes away from the alleged public service news hacks say they provide. But because this Moebius strip of reporting has itself become a story, what "responsible" news organization can ignore it?

I HATE NEWS HACKS!

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