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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, May 16, 2008

Posted 5:26 PM by Gene

Now that the silly season is upon us (although we'd argue the silly season is now all year) the news hacks have another excuse to play with themselves. Larry King, of whom reverence is not enough of a word for their feelings (though among the public it may be beyond ridicule), has made noises of retiring, and boy, losing such a superb interviewer and humanitarian, they're already probing the Kremlinology of it all, when it would be obvious if they had brains that 1. Larry is old, and 2. Larry's last decent interview is beyond the past, or imagining.

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