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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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Friday, January 31, 2003

Posted 11:04 AM by Gene

DaimlerChrysler (Dilbert-spell if ever there was such a thing) shows its mettle as a member of the American Society of Willfully Ignorant Advertisers. The same company that inflicted the Dodge "beef-jerky" ad on Super Bowl viewers (I didn't see it, and I'm glad) censors a cartoon of the late Bill Mauldin's, presumably out of respect for Jeeps that have gotten shot. We can be sure DC sponsors all manner of grotesqueries on the tube. Of course, it's a GERMAN company. Unfortunately, Germany was not on the right side of the war. It still isn't.

The more I think of this story, the angrier I get. Jeeps were in the vanguard on the road to freedom. Where did Daimler vehicles lead? To the gas chambers? (Daimler used forced labor, natch.)

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