Eugene David
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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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Friday, January 05, 2007

Posted 8:32 AM by Gene

I have all but stopped reading the brand-name pundits because they best personify the hacks' feet-on-the-desk attitude. Just write a column -- or better still, have an intern write it; no one will know the difference. For the first time in memory I decided to read Eleanor Clift® because she was writing about NANCY!, and I figure they must be close friends; I can see them yakety-yakking together about old boyfriends or rumors or skin care or whatever two yakety-yakkers will yak about. Of COURSE her column was nothing but the standard propaganda boilerplate. If the biz fired its brand-name pundits that alone would guarantee a better product -- or at least one that temporarily couldn't get any worse.

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