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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Sunday, January 09, 2011

Posted 12:13 PM by Gene

I'm comprehensively avoiding the opinion sites today as they'll be a mix of revulsion and finger pointing. In this regard I must also cut back on Newser, a condescendingly partisan site at its worst, and on Business Insider, which is dominated by some high-decibel weather vane named Wiesenthal and runs some of the stupidest comments of any site. I always avoid WALTER WINCHELL!!!!! and MS. BIG PROFITS! as I know they're mirror images of each other's shrillness, and they talk down to their audiences too. I've followed the news by Web for fifteen years and have never found relief from its constant banshee scream, and you can't find the news anywhere without it, and no news organization is above-the-fray trustworthy so you could rely on it and escape the screaming. I must take an occasional vacation from the Web, for my sanity's sake.

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