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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 8:36 PM by Gene

The nervous giggles emanating from NewsMax raise the question: Would Microsoft be better as a capitalist firm -- or a capitalist state? And what is the difference between a corporation and a state at this magnitude? Don't both have bureaucracies? Aren't both deaf to public opinion? Don't both offer lousy customer service? Don't both charge too much (in taxes or purchase prices)? Don't both own too many underused or useless assets? Don't both offer a form of welfare? Can't both be above the law? Yes, the public can't elect the chairman of Microsoft, and all his little factotums, but to more and more people, what's the importance of it?

You NewsMax news hacks and other knee-jerk conservatives forever claim that Bill and his collection of bug breeders are The Eighth Wonder of the World. What's the difference between Microsoft Corporation and a Microsoft Republic, NewsMax?

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