Eugene David
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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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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Posted 5:28 PM by Gene

I have dutifully tried to listen to the highly-acclaimed (speaking of revuer talk) meeting in Baltimore, but to me it's just another example of another overused term: kabuki. Both sides platituded past each other. And while I'd love for His Omnipotence to surpass my expectations -- he still has some wan pixie dust left from his rapidly fading charisma -- there's something about his almost monotonous baritone and automatonic thinking that makes my brain wink off. In the end, nothing will come of this, regardless of how many pundits show their boundless awe with another overused term: theater. Government must be more than bad acting.

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