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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, September 30, 2010

Posted 8:23 AM by Gene

In the back of his very generous heart Sidney Harman wants to run SIDSWEEK like a liberal philanthropy. Firing only a few people and on the business side is a mark of the news hack's priorities. We could see the ads in six months: "With a vigor belying his age, the 92-year-old Harman has transformed a revered journalistic franchise with a renewed emphasis on blahblahblah...." If one of the cadre were impertinent enough to ask about his losses Sid could reply with a vigorous 92-year-old NO COMMENT!!!!! We wouldn't be surprised if he stops making his circulation numbers public. That Sid is entertaining a merger with TINA!!!!!, a merger of equally dubious business propositions, suggests a generous heart is not enough.

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