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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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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Posted 5:21 PM by Gene

Another tantrum for liberals: The authors of the exhaustive Yale series on Soviet Communism declare that "from 1936 to 1939 I.F. Stone was a Soviet spy", that he may have helped the noble cause during the war, and he was still on and off with Moscow until the Czech invasion of 1968. Hacks, of course, will ignore all this, just as they ignored the perfidy of Walter Duranty and Herbert Matthews, and its appearance in the NEOCON!!!!!!!!!! Commentary is total justification; but in Stone as with these men is the dark underbelly of the newsroom, which has had more than its share of overpaid simps ready to betray the nation for a higher ideal; and when forced, even Stone could not identify what that ideal was. We wonder if he truly had any regrets for it, aside from the belated show of conscience in '68.

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