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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, February 01, 2008

Posted 5:16 PM by Gene

At his worst, or even merely approaching his worst, Chuck Krauthammer hugs himself. He tells us today that Ronald Reagan presided over HISTORIC TIMES. Contending as we do (not an original contention) that The Me Decade is now in its thirty-eighth year, we say history hasn't made much of a dent in it. Ronald Reagan may have done HISTORIC things (another word that long passed the threshold of overuse), but his decade was as sleazy and tawdry and marketing-driven as ours. Indeed partisan hacks invented the word "sleaze" to describe Reagan. And much of the era's HIS-TORY has joined the historical ash heap, notably in Russia; and how soon we forget Reagan "assumed responsibilty" for the Beirut bombing, which did not stop terrorists from assuming things of their own. He is also to blame for making huge budget deficits easy -- but this coming from a tone-deaf Tom Lehrer impersonator we cannot take his valid point seriously.

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