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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, January 05, 2010

Posted 11:30 AM by Gene

I hate Kurt Andersen-ing. That's a behavior ambitious interns engage in when they take a totally insignificant news story and bleat of its epochal importance with enough empty words to underline their inner Machiavelli. But some news stories can't be horsehockeyed into significance. That an airess -- pardon, heiress has died has no significance. At least Anna Nicole had fake boobs. But when enough MICHAELS and TINAS and others who pretentiously complain of the DUMBING-DOWN OF NEWS get through with it the public will have to engage in a collective banshee scream for a week to obliterate the memory.

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