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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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Monday, June 13, 2011

Posted 6:44 PM by Gene

TWXSTER NEWSRAG has always been about publicity; it was that way from the very first day when "backward ran sentences until reeled the mind"; it was that way sucking up to executives until Henry Luce got the brilliant idea of doing it full-time through Fortune; it was about selling presidential candidates -- Ike, JIMMAH -- and celebrities until three full-throated organization men made that a separate Fort Knox of print; it has always been about selling something. Truth was a distant second. Who here remembers the several renditions of that highly promotional glorified docudrama series The March of Time -- or that Henry had a stake in the Blue Network (the future ABC)? No, for "Can't Anyone Here Edit This Rag?" Stengel to tout this publicity stunt as curing cancer shows just how irrelevant PEOPLE WARNER's former flagship has grown; I wouldn't bet on it surviving to 2030.

(Via NRO)

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