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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, January 08, 2011

Posted 2:45 PM by Gene

Skimming this ad we looked in vain for Bruce Horwitz' byline but we would not have to go too far to find AL NEUHARTH's; he's the inspiration behind such stuff -- and behind the SUPER BOWL AD METER that has made such campaigns inescapable.

And when the NEWS HACKS start in with their GUN CONTROL TALK shortly we should remember this. I've said this a million times before too: spinning and selling are two sides of the same counterfeit coin; such is the news hacks' mindset that the one can't exist without the other. And in that vein we should not forget THE ANNOUNCER; when the hacks are of a mind their "reporting" resembles mental illness.

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