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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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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Posted 11:06 AM by Gene

REWRITE: God knows how often hacks essentially redo other papers' stories -- as with this one about a lecher who got teen cheerleaders drunk in his house, very craftily rewritten (or, given our earlier post, Farhied) by this StinkyInky Tabloid Edition writer. We must confess we'd have paid no mind to it except this guy throws screaming whining sieg-heil left-wing tantrums on a "blog" on the Tabloid Edition's site, which means he'd probably whine about such shenanigans if he were someone else. That the rewriter is a left-wing Neanderthal is only one reason we complain -- we needn't mention this publisher just declared bankruptcy. If its MO is to very lazily have its "talent" rewrite other papers' stories it should fold outright. That the Tabloid Edition is now officially just a sideways version of the StinkyInky also says that most newspapers don't compete regardless of their organization charts.

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