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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, August 15, 2008

Posted 8:17 AM by Gene

Life is decisions, and some of us make better ones than others. Having six bodies would make life easier; if we were a large business we are sure we would have the decision to be quite wealthy. Even with mass firings a news organization can still make good decisions -- in theory it should make better ones because fewer staff should mean fewer opportunities for mischief or drivel. GanNETt doesn't know better, nor it appears does its rank-and-file; despite its having laid off three percent of its workers our NEUHARTHIAN ROCK AD-BLURBIST EDNA still finds the time to write some asinine filler about three of her favorites. The news biz' decision, then, to continue to serve up tripe is theirs. The decision to pass up this unsavory daily repast is OURS.

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