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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, April 01, 2010

Posted 9:51 AM by Gene

And we should remember news hacks are singularly focused singular creatures when reading something like this. The Comedy Central News News Hour has 1.5 million viewers. How many for these masterworks? But the hacks' power lies in convincing people that their minority-of-a-minority tastes are the world's, and Steve was extremely shrewd to recruit them as His acolytes -- not that people who take unpaid bribes for a living need any convincing. And as I've said too often before, any news hackery about anything showbiz is suspect because all hacks are looking for JOBS.

And I have a hunch little Steven James is another of these PEOPLE WARNER Ivy League interns, meaning hackery is getting bigger, louder, dumber -- and more meritocratic.

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