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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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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Posted 10:47 AM by Gene

Mr. Coll has a strong point; The Communications Acts of 1934 and 1996 are obsolete. But free en-ter-prise will not inspire good reporting. We see that in the newspaper biz, a victim of free en-ter-rpise from the Web. We see that in cable "news", which has more free en-ter-prise than any other segment of the TV trade. We simply cannot trust unimpeded capitalists to meet their social obligations. The BP disaster proved that. No one has a feasible solution to the news mess, although Mr. Coll's idea that FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News help finance NPNTR may not be completely unsound, unless, as Mr. Coll seems to suggest, the GUVMENT mandate it.

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