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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, July 21, 2009

Posted 8:42 AM by Gene

One last word (we hope) on MOST TRUSTED: Thanks to this tiresome think piece we learn a pollster named Oliver Quayle did the survey. We cannot find out much about Quayle except he appears to have been an independent pollster who worked with or for Lou Harris. We further learn "somebody" (hint hint) suggested MOST TRUSTED be included in the survey. Who "somebody" was we don't learn as this is from SUMNER NEWS before the superscripts. The rest is the first rough draft of history and the CBS publicity department.

How apt too that the SUMNER NEWS piece suggests GEN. LEAK TWOFACE deserved the title as well, which says a lot about our superiors and public opinion polls.

And all right, we get the message, MOST TRUSTED was a nice guy, but lots of nice guys do not-so-nice things, and sending untold southeast Asians to their deaths might not be such a nice thing, especially when we were proud of it.

(First link via the usual Romy)

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