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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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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Posted 6:22 PM by Gene

We haven't paid much thought to Milan Kundera's travails as they may boil down to a game of East-Bloc insider baseball, with jealousy on all sides, a notion that gains validity from the remark that he "writes intellectual pornography for mediocre Western readers", which we would not be surprised to learn has a basis in truth (especially as he inspired a Hollywood arthouse extrusion); and it may be hard to find high-profile figures from that era who didn't collaborate. Nonetheless, if he did, it is a stain, a stain not bleached by the excuse that everybody did it -- or had to do it.

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