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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, July 02, 2007

Posted 4:51 PM by Gene

How many now-whats do we get from the hacks? One enduring category of now-whats is the self-improvement story, which suggests if you do something unconventional regularly something good will happen -- and often contradicting another story that says if you don't do what the hacks are suddenly suggesting you do, something good for happen. Forgive us after L'Affaire Paris, L'Affaire iPHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, and L'Affaire KWIK-E-MARTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if we don't tell the hacks to stick such stories up their cavernous repository for other such stories.

(Via ArtsJournal, which already has a few up there)

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