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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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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Posted 8:41 AM by Gene

The media's shortsightedness is underlined by the shortsightedness of our CASINOS. They too are prone to panics because if anything they're even more shortsighted than newshacks; they can only see numbers, and can easily be lulled to sleep by soothing fairy tales -- or else break out in hives at stories of calamity, however false. Media and the CASINOS have a great deal too much in common, mostly the need to preen, and to SELL; both entities exist in a bell jar, hearing nothing from the outside world. It goes without saying what happened in Japan is bad for its economy in the short haul, but it no more merits a 10.5 percent plunge in one day than our CASINO could justify doubling its money in two years.

And the worst part is that will eventually lead to the kind of mindless buying that led our CASINO to double its money in two years.

I'm not a Pollyanna but I lived through TMI, and in hindsight the news hacks' panic was a joke.

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