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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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Posted 9:28 AM by Gene

We wonder what keeps a guy like Al Jaffee going. In 1964, when he started the famed Mad Fold-In, the magazine was adored by millions, a veritable fount of sarcasm at the powers that be, a needed raspberry against bigmedia. Today it is but one small crumb of PEOPLE WARNER, read by a few desperate souls searching impatiently for a sense of humor, tainted with ADS, all but ignored, as once vital, now useless organizations deserve to be. Yet Al Jaffee keeps going. We salute him for 44 years of fold-ins, and for being part of a glory that now exists only in the minds of comic-book collectors.

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