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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, November 25, 2007

Posted 10:23 AM by Gene

Which isn't to say the publishing biz has forgotten the dictum, "Stupid Is as Stupid Pays." Forbeslist MUST run an extremely irritating book blurb (for a two-year-old book that's no. 577,927 on Amazon.com -- why not just let sleeping dogs lie?) over which ultramegalomaniac CEOs belong on the list of GREATEST TERMINATORS AND SELF-REMUNERATORS OF ALL TIME, said purpose being who can suck up to the most people after the fact; and a great many people are DEEPLY UPSET that LEGENDARY WELCH isn't on the list, presumably because he fired too many people to the sounds of press cheerleading, but heck it wasn't our jobs.

WHO WILL BE THE NEXT LEGENDARY? And there WILL be one, just as sure as news hacks spin and sell.

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