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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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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Posted 9:22 AM by Gene

As bad as their raw naked ADVERTISING is, when the hacks go into their thinker mode it's far worse. Hacks don't have a hundredth of the firepower needed to be public intellectuals but that doesn't stop them from indecent exposures. This USAOKAY!!!!! piece will stand as a classic of its kind; it's what gets Prof. Shafer to fume over fake trends. Not everyone is peeking at others' cell phones, and I don't give two hoots for my neighbor's private life -- when we're all a slightly different shade of dull who but the hopelessly bored is inclined to care? -- but SOB AL's first-person plural never entirely disappeared from OKAY!!!!!, and at OKAY!!!!! we have to make a big thing of every showy mirage.

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