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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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Friday, July 03, 2009

Posted 8:20 AM by Gene

That the nooz biz continues to make a stink over L'Affaire Kaplan shows plainly how hypocritical it is. News is all about favors; it is all about power. Being in the loop is part of the magic elixir of being a news hack, the growth hormone for fame and profits. Do a job honestly and conscientiously, "without fear or favor", as the idiot hacks like to harrumph when the public is looking, and you're out of the loop -- and a job. That the hacks are screaming shows we are wise to their machinations, and that we don't expect anything better from them; indeed the presence of this scheme at this time shows we can only expect worse.

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