Eugene David
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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, April 19, 2009

Posted 12:15 PM by Gene

And speaking of things that make us wonder what hacks are up to, this story is irritating in a vague, amorphous way. Maybe it's because the Boston Glob has been lately beating itself so frequently and justifiably on the chest, or maybe it's because some well-meaning hack is ascribing a solution to social problems that just isn't there, or maybe it's because she thinks teens seeing a "hip" musical will help, or maybe because it's a form of anecdotal reporting, or maybe it's because the show isn't that good in the first place; or maybe it's because the Web site she links to (which doesn't link back to anything but is clearly part of the show's sales pitch) has all of four much-vaunted parental testimonials, or maybe it's because it's just plain lazy, or maybe it's because it's another way of avoiding asking hard questions of THE MAN WE LOVE.

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