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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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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Posted 12:27 PM by Gene

And this relentless driving of such things into our dear little ear, not to mention the inescapable notion that the nation's Democratic Party PR bureaus -- er, its news suites will be funeral homes, cemeteries, mausoleums draped in miles of black crepe the day after election day, explains why even a story like this doesn't pass the smell test. If Michael (whose last name is a guarantee of a permanent job at PEOPLE WARNER MAGAZINES) hadn't framed it from the start as a political thing it might have been credible, and even then we'd have wondered if this was wind-power lobbyists speaking. But because news hacks are infallible they can do the little things that rile the bulk of their readership and ensure that no one would believe their typing if the Lord God vouched for it.

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