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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Monday, January 11, 2010

Posted 8:48 AM by Gene

I wonder how many would join me in saying they're sick of hearing of that modern-day version of Red Skelton and the whole lot of overpaid late-night bores. Who watches them? About three percent of the population? What caused them to get this stranglehold of our attention? Just because Jeff Zuck's an immortal demonstration of the Peter Principle does that mean the bores must be plastered on every page? We know the outcome: no-talents keep their zillion dollar salaries, advertisers burn money on shows few watch, hacks like The Original TV Newser! write more insider baseball, and the public is bored by bores.

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