Eugene David
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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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Saturday, December 22, 2007

Posted 4:21 PM by Gene

Though buried on its Web site, this Paper of Re-CORD article ran just above the fold on its front page, speaking volumes of its lack of courage or news judgment. Forced to confront this we must confront the underlying story, which, when only a day old, seemed immortally tiresome. (That we must view it as another manifestation of ennui speaks of the utter mess our age is in.) The young woman being a SUMNERIAN we can expect Him to play tricks for profit, like revising His series to make cute, "non-judgmental" bromides on teen pregnancy; but the recent career free-fall of the SUMNERIAN's fearsomely exasperating older "sister" may prove that SUM's first instinct, the age-old skunk smell that any publicity is good publicity, just won't work, for publicity has made the older slut the show-biz equivalent of Typhoid Mary. One thing is clear: the national headache has just begun.

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