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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, August 01, 2007

Posted 5:33 PM by Gene

It is bad enough that the hacks enforce a national speech code on the public, but worse is the one they enforce on themselves, where a man can face banishment from the profession for life for saying something stupid. We do not defend this hack's attempt at the "honest" banter so prevalent among sport's FRED FLINTSTONES (although we think we get what we think he wanted to say, that Mr. Dog Executioner would have been treated more leniently if he'd raped a woman, which may not be entirely unsound thinking; then again we wouldn't expect a hack to phrase his way out of a thimble), but this biz can't go on defending its much vaunted First Amendment rights when it's so intent on constructing impenetrable walls around them.

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