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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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Thursday, January 07, 2010

Posted 9:03 AM by Gene

Today's one of those days when we believe the news biz would be better off firing all its scribblers and simply selling the space, with PR types doing the "reporting". There would be no practical difference in the quality. Of the three stories we've posted on all relied on some sort of PR campaign. Now comes another: the burnt-out hulk of a company called Polaroid has convinced publicists everywhere to run a press release for it. From this day forward we can confidently say anyone who bleats that the news biz has a higher calling is lying -- and since the principal business of the news biz is to lie, it would more honestly do so under the rubric of total PR.

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