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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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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Posted 5:13 PM by Gene

This WILL be our last mention of Him but why are the hacks in such a sunken grief over THE BOSS? That He lived in THE CENTER OF ALL KNOWN UNIVERSES didn't hurt. Perhaps also because He was their ideal; beneath His bluster he was basically a snob, like they. Also He was a BIGMEDIA guy (and we're sure the grief-stricken have taken great pains not to tell the peons He produced for Branson East; aptly His last show was named for a hero -- Legs Diamond). And He, like THEY, always got His way. We suspect in His twilight years He asked why He couldn't take it with him, and ultimately He couldn't beat that rap. In short, He was the guy who could STICK IT IN OUR FACES. Unlike THE BOSS, however, hacks have learned -- well, several of them have -- that few of us can be Walter Mitty outside a daydream. And more than likely wherever He is He's learning that in the end only in FORBESLIST does it pay to be phantasmagorically greedy.

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