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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, February 28, 2009

Posted 9:10 PM by Gene

Paul Harvey was at the heart of modern radio. He was, first and foremost, a salesman; and the perceived efficacy of his pitches surely helped lead petty tyrants like LOWSY MAYS and ZONNNNNNNNN to build their radio empires, dedicated to the notion of selling, the listener be damned, empires built with enormous debt, now imploding under it. Just this week the NYSE delisted Harvey's employer, Citadel. By all accounts he was a gentleman and had respect for his audience; and we don't blame him for what radio is now, for the ungentlemen and disrespect for the audience that turned radio into one continuous shill, which is why (thankfully) it's in one continuous heap of trouble today.

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