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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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Monday, September 01, 2008

Posted 4:44 PM by Gene

Which brings us to the question of what killed objectivity. We have an earnest lesson in Zeitgeist. The beloved ad copywriter Mr. Ansen has written a book blurb in which he evidences a seemingly depthless rage at Ronald Reagan but attempts to couch it in the obsolete tone of an objective non-partisan. To be sure, the former president was not the paragon of perfection con-SER-va-tives make him out to be; he was human (given "all the starlets he wined, dined and BEDDED between [his] marriages") (political-hypocrite overemphasis added), and he hooked up with scum (notably the late unlamented Lew Wasserman). These are valid points; but when the typist making them harbors a strong grudge, and expresses it in coy, euphemistic language, pretentiously concealing his ill-camouflaged disgust, it besmirches the truth. There is, needless to say, no besmirching a rag like Zeitgeist, which sees fit to print such malarkey with a compulsion.

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