Eugene David
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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, January 12, 2011

Posted 4:07 PM by Gene

Continuing to write on the Arizona calamity is like beating your head against a wall. One thing's certain: I cannot overcome my distrust of nearly every prominent talking head. If they don't have ulterior motives they act it; they lecture us like retarded children, brandishing rhetorical two-by-fours; the most noxious make big money and rub our noses in it. I'm especially deflated to discover the millions of flowers blooming on the Web, the supposed antidote to their rhetorical thuggery, are mostly stinkweeds, differing only faintly from the smell. From here on out I must approach the Web as if entering a high-crime zone -- which in too many ways it already is.

This torture will soon end, to be replaced in time by an identical new one; what won't end is my belief that the organs of public opinion are against the public.

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