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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, February 07, 2007

Posted 5:03 PM by Gene

Bruce has written a Harvard Business School case study in why so much of business reporting is worthless: it's an attempt to make a trend more than to report it, and to pat the trend's creators on the back for a job well done for merely creating a trend. So much of business reporting has been the pat on the back -- what imprisoned super-CEO was without it? Moreover it meshes well with the hacks' overbearing desire to be pop-cultural arbiters, and to use the word HIP to the point of supreme annoyance with its consumers -- hey, but who are they? They merely hit up our Web pages.

A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO BRUCE!

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