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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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Thursday, August 04, 2011

Posted 9:41 AM by Gene

We'd guess this twaddle is headed for AHTSJournal. Just because a rag is "prestigious" doesn't mean it can't run twaddle; indeed some of the most "prestigious" rags run the most twaddle -- look at The New Yorker -- or The Econowiz. A prime example of twaddle is the lengthy think piece such as this gassing on societal trends. Such pieces can be irritatingly blasé, which the news hack mistakes for erudition. Mike Royko could pack more bite into one sentence than these gums can ooze into a hundred essays -- and the fact Mike Royko's dead and the business has had no interest in replacing him exacerbates the annoyance.

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