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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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Monday, March 31, 2008

Posted 8:15 AM by Gene

The sad, very sad, extremely sad, infinitely sad story of how Zeitgeist has offered 111 staffers buyouts touches us deeply. Especially the talk of -- "institutional memory." Why, who knew the rag that ran the Hitler Diaries and the Koran in the toilet had a memory? We thought it had amnesia -- and a pretty good case too. (Insititutional memory is a neat excuse legisla-TORS use when they don't want to lose their jobs en masse.) That said, first off, we doubt most readers will notice their absence -- until the rag gets skinnier, and that's only because the rag has fewer staffers. Second off, this confirms news rags (save for The Econowiz, which was saved by the Bugmeister) are irrelevant and purposeless, and the sooner their smug glibness vanishes the better. Alas, most of the high-paid CW writers will still be there...including (we suspect) the EXTREMELY BELOVED DAVID ANSEN, who, if we had to guess, was the source for this piece. But that's just a guess.

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