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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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Monday, August 16, 2010

Posted 8:30 AM by Gene

We wonder how many news hacks have high blood pressure. We suspect if pundits could be barred from employment for high blood pressure there'd be hardly any pundits. (Hallelujah!) We also wonder how many of them write as a form of therapy for their maladies. We could see Mark, for instance, using this as a way to calm himself down after a session screaming at his mirror over the perfidy of Nazis. I have high blood pressure too, which blogging does no good for, and I certainly don't write for therapy. But piffle like "only the jihadists will win" could only come from writing as therapy, and I'm sick of these typists using their undeserved luck as an excuse for projection.

Besides, PEOPLE WARNER is the last company I'd trust to have my interests at heart.

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