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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Friday, February 26, 2010

Posted 8:23 AM by Gene

One thing that especially irks us about the Web (and we're sure we've said this before) is having to follow stories that under another circumstance would have no importance or meaning. We've had four or five stories about the gracelessness and stupidity of GAMES athletes, people who (as we've said before) we'd never heard of before and will never hear of again, but the ever growing news maw needs its words, and there are thousands of talentless hacks to feed it. Ordinarily we wouldn't give two hoots how the women of Canada's GAMES hockey team would celebrate, but because of the gigantic need and endless compulsion to fill space we must gag on it as though on the girls' cigar smoke. Besides isn't classless behavior the norm in today's world? And aren't the same breathless media hacks tsk-tsking the Canadian women largely to blame, given their endless celebrations of jerks?

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