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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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Sunday, February 25, 2007

Posted 10:25 AM by Gene

And here is the problem -- when news hacks deign fit not to report on corpses or sexy movie stars or people with a beauty-salon fetish or the SHOCKING SECRETS of politicians raising money, they tend to report only on that news which they think needs to be reported, and in that patented trademarked way that always gets you thinking of the angle. Yes poverty is a problem. But is it realistic to believe, given the design of the human race, that everyone can be middle-class? Of course the unwritten notion of such table-pounding is that REAGAN did it (notwithstanding that many hacks live quite well in the upper class, thank you), and in the last graf we get the possibly false stat that "45 million" are without health insurance, which reminds us of how twenty years ago there were three million or ten million homeless on the streets, which made lots of people roll their eyeballs at such stories, which does the poor absolutely no good.

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