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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, August 19, 2009

Posted 5:04 PM by Gene

Another relic of star jernalism is Don Hewitt's 60 Minutes. It was the perfect example of the burgeoning hack ethos of its day -- an almost even mix of investigative pieces whose subjects were guilty and never to be proved innocent (think ALAR and the AUDI 5000 -- or DUBYA*) and the most fawning obsequious celebrity puff pieces. Its stars like the nose-in-the-air Morley Safer rode in Rolls Royces and chauffeured limousines. In 1968 the news biz still engendered trust. Now, thanks to shows like 60 Minutes, among a great many it has no trust.

*He was persecuted on 60 Minutes the Second, the show INVENTED by HORACE -- STORM, who took infinity, er infinite credit for it! Some idea, Horton.

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