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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, May 20, 2009

Posted 9:44 AM by Gene

There are very good reasons news hacks should earn as close to zero as possible. The hacks are after all information dispensers, much like a computer; their facts can be melted down into two sentences or a graph. This is hardly high-paying work. Where hacks attempt to justify themselves is by "adding value", which usually means adding bias or conjecture or snark. These aren't justifications for paying them; indeed they're a good reason to dock them still more pay as they add what we frequently don't want. We know a Mike Royko when we see one. We also know the hordes of idiots who inflict their spin and selling on us, and who definitely deserve to earn zero.

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