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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, December 22, 2008

Posted 11:18 AM by Gene

ROLL THE EYES: USAOKAY!!!!! has just played another trick on its readers. More churches now use more drums than ever! And worship is more informal and enthusiastic! But go down to the TWELFTH GRAF of a fourteen-graf story and you find both priests and congregants are older than they were a decade ago, meaning either 1. the young have learned to live without church or 2. maybe all that hand-clapping and shouting and drum-beating isn't drawing customers. (No mention of total church attendance, by the way.) This is precisely the kind of story (like OKAY!!!!!'s endless show-biz-RECORD fables) that graphs would tell better -- and more honestly.

When USAOKAY!!!!! makes a trend, do a full-nelson on your wallet.

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