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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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Monday, May 14, 2007

Posted 5:27 PM by Gene

"I'VE SEEN BOB GET 60, 70, 80 MEDIA CALLS IN ONE DAY!!!!!" says the man who hired him at Syracuse, David Rubin, dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. "I'VE SEEN HIM IN A HALLWAY ON HIS CELL PHONE FOR HOURS. YOU COULD GO SO FAR AS TO SAY BOB IS THE MOST QUOTED ACADEMIC IN THE UNITED STATES!!!!!!!!!!"

So often has Thompson been quoted, over 17 years at Syracuse, that some news organizations (including The Associated Press) have lately tried consciously NOT to quote him. [Enthusiastic pop-culture-is-king overemphasis added]

But then their colleagues make up the slack by quoting his inane sound bytes even MORE. We'll NEVER be rid of this preening lout.

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