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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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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Posted 8:56 AM by Gene

From early indications this hurricane, though bad, may not be the CATASTROPHE!!!!! the emergency-management incompetents and their partners in falling skies the news hacks predicted. These events irritate us in part because the hacks tend to act as if we can prevent hurricanes (an annoyance compounded by the invariable accompanying surfeit of PC global warming stories), although people might not want to live where they're something of an occupational hazard. As for those riding out the storm, perhaps it's just stubbornness, but could all the Chicken Little surrounding hurricanes have the opposite effect on them? Then again, maybe some folks are just plain stupid.

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