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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, January 29, 2007

Posted 6:44 AM by Gene

Fr. Robert Drinan, the news hacks' kind of Catholic, has died. To the extent any Congressman can be remembered (few deserve to be) with Drinan it will not be for his "courageous" stands on topics like THE WAR and abortion (moderate = pro-choice; better update THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY) but because Pope John Paul II told him to quit his job, presumably because he wasn't that Catholic. Such are the perils of taking courageous stands on the issues, and of siding with the angels. RIP.

I realize how sour this sounds but when news hacks do a favor it turns the recipient into a caricature.

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