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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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Friday, November 16, 2007

Posted 5:25 PM by Gene

The Atlantic Monthly is inflicting its readers with a fantasy by Mr. Mellerdrammer who says he luvs JFK Lincoln because of his face. One of the things that makes presidential campaign reporting intolerable is that everybody wants to be Anonymous, anointing the next president, wallowing in riches and renown, barely cognizant of the great sacrifice in verity and the huge heaping of scorn the success brings, even (or especially) when the gods grant the recipient a best-selling non-fiction novel. We need more scribbling stupidity on the campaign trail the way we need an epidemic of hives.

We have not linked because we figure that whiny flip-flopping self-pitying vastly-overremunerated hack has enough of them.

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