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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 29, 2003

Posted 11:47 AM by Gene

Most businesses may be run by decent people, Peter Kann, but decency only goes so far with twenty layers of management, and decency only goes so far when it's overwhelmed by "competition," and decency only goes so far when you're at political cross purposes (like The Wall Street Journals), and decency only goes so far when you're in a crooked business. eBay believes "people are basically good," and is overrun with scammers. Sorry, the Bible says pretty definitively that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Businessmen are among the sinners, and too often, they show it. Ralph Nader didn't call the Journals the police blotter of business for nothing.

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