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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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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Posted 8:17 AM by Gene

As I said yesterday, I love public opinion polls; they allow the hacks to slant the news and fill up space they'd otherwise have to devote to reporting. Another reason is that they get to posit a consensus that may be based on ignorance, or on TV news, which is the same thing. The nice thing about this story is that it gives the notion that the public wants us outoutOUT of Iraq. But how many bothered even to download the TEN WISE GUYS' report? Is Brian Williams really the same thing? It won't do to cite hypothetical Civil War polls on slavery, or European polls on the Crusades, or what not; polling is a uniquely modern stupid thing. But why do news hacks think polls represent the truth?

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