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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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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Posted 2:37 PM by Gene

The maddening thing about today's news biz is that everything has to be expressed in boldface. Thus as if answering the table-pounding hyperbole of the Web's fifth-rate WALTER WINCHELL impersonator MATT the HIP! HEP! HOT! ADAM!!!!!!!!!!'s rag proclaims him "THE WALTER CRONKITE OF HIS ERA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" when the truth is he hasn't broken a big story in ages, and the only people who swear by him are the knee-jerks at con-SER-va-tive sites like NRO, who must consult him before they can determine if a story is legitimate. I haven't consulted WALTER!!!!!!!!!! in ages, and I'm no less well informed. (Indeed I'd say I'm better informed because I avoid his mind-bending biases and his penchant for screaming PR.) That so many use him as an excuse for the bad jernalism of our time indicates that maybe they haven't done enough introspection.

P. S. To the extent Alexa.com can be trusted -- and the big if is that it's a self-selecting sample -- WALTER!!!!! pulls in fewer hits than the sites breathless ADAM!!!!! insists he bests.

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