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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 14, 2007

Posted 4:58 PM by Gene

I'm not sure why the hacks are hot for this story either. Yes, there's a stick-it-to-CONSERVATIVES angle, and the fact it's the daughter of the EEEEEEEEEEEVIL Justice Scalia, but I'd guess that's not all. Why should we be interested when the sons and daughters of the famous get in legal trouble? What is the intrinsic interest of it? What does it say of their sons' and daughters upbringing other than zero? Yes there are exceptions; Andy Reid's two miscreants come to mind. But aren't there more pressing matters for the hacks to cover -- like Britney's latest explosion?

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