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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, May 22, 2011

Posted 1:31 PM by Gene

Add PR0N to the list of topics news hacks will not report on accurately -- that is, when they bother reporting on it at all. That lack of reporting (save for an occasional tired public service announcement on child PR0N) represents industry self-interest, plus a smug determination that their side has won. How news hacks could think they've won when the very ubiquity of PR0N undercuts faith in all media puzzles us. Their selfishness has helped us sweep it under the rug. But PR0N can't be swept under a rug for too long. America could not quite keep its conscience muted on abortion, and now, nearly forty years too late, the states are instituting tougher standards. The same must someday hold true for PR0N. That odious phrase "sunlight is the best disinfectant" became a stench because so many uttering it have hidden their own secrets. But as this piece boldly says, we must disinfect PR0N as publicly as possible before it gets the better of us.

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