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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, September 08, 2010

Posted 4:57 PM by Gene

In the old days the hacks would not have exasperated us with such excruciating ad campaigns because they would have given the recipients the partisanly inspired silent treatment, which despite its usual reek would have been most welcome here. But with GanNETt never at $90 again and a lot of their employers in the TV biz and therefore in "reality" programming we get constant ad campaigns, whether for the recorded...SOUND trade's no talents or buffoons committing job-market suicide or psychotic cranks with a cause. Yes, we will banish them from our heads soon enough, but their residue remains, and with each new affront it accretes, and we get angrier and angrier.

We will give the HONORARY MAYOR or His aides credit for being Their definition of broadminded. But dignify such fools and you dignify more fools.

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