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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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Monday, December 25, 2006

Posted 12:17 PM by Gene

Sometimes when a prominent figure dies you're stumped for words, or facts, and I try not to write from ignorance, though I seldom succeed. I didn't post on, say, Red Auerbach because what could you say? He won a lot of games, he smoked cigars, and people liked him. The same with James Brown. He was an R&B man when it was still a lot of honking, and he sang about sex, and he wiggled a lot, and he frequently made an ass of himself, and got in trouble with the law, all so he could be called "legendary" by the tone-deaf. You couldn't help noticing though that he smiled all the time, and whatever made him smile (we'll skip that), he seemed happy. His fans seemed happy in return. Let's just say a lot of people liked him, and be done with it.

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