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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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Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Posted 7:35 PM by Gene

I hope I'm wrong in thinking the withdrawal of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill from the WTC redesign contest is bad news. They're the suits of architecture and have put up more refrigerators than anyone, but at least their presence offered continuity. Now the "avant-garde" (ah! How the Times LOVES that word) has a better chance at building 3,000-foot-high Tinkertoy sculptures or two-block-long glass walls. I fear whatever replaces the WTC will be a) ugly, b) impractical, c) a white elephant, or ideally, d) all of the above.

I really believe a better idea would be to dust off old blueprints of buildings that could have been masterpieces but were never built, for one reason or another. The various designs for the Tribune Building in Chicago come to mind. Otherwise, the result will be a permanent eyesore, and the world's worst practical joke.

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