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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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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Posted 8:10 PM by Gene

Smart thinking again from the editor of The World's Lea -- the Magazine of the Zeitgeist: it runs a respectful Rudy on our front cover (probably because he's liberal) -- and everywhere else it's Toyota gaining on GM! (Too much of a downer for the domestic audience.) Noteworthy that Rick Wagoner says the auto biz may come "down to just two" -- just like "the cola business." Does that mean he's buying Ford too?

And as always our concentration on a rag that seems bent on simplifying the news at every step and that spends too much time grooming future entertainment execs leads us almost to ignore some decent coverage -- as with Russia's Potemkin military. Let's not get too smug, though; there may be demons behind those false fronts.

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