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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, July 18, 2008

Posted 8:20 AM by Gene

The last thing any news hack will ever say is that the reason he and his colleagues are having to wave goodbye to so many other colleagues is that we must always Get the Message. Whether it's the Message that Iraq is lost, or the Message that Republicans are EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL, or the Message that the Messiah is GOD, or the Message that CEOs are sacred, or the Message that the Kurt Cobain of Film was a GENIUS, they always dispense with Messages. So long as we must always Get the Message we must dispense with the Messengers in the hopes of making their business a MESS.

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