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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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Posted 9:42 AM by Gene

Unique among the press stooges are SUPERADAM's teeming coterie of interns who type his Vulture section, engaging in the most flagrant show-biz fanny-kissing with just a smidgeon of irony and just enough harmless leavening sarcasm to fool credulous readers -- and whose SUPERBOSS compounds their excellence by hiding their bylines (you have to click on the comments to find them). Your modern hack may think himself new and improved when he's no different from the rats who scampered along Fleet Street, or the numb lockstep types who put out balderdash for Citizen Hearst and Henry Luce. BS is BS whatever the medium -- and whenever.

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