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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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Saturday, February 08, 2003

Posted 1:16 PM by Gene

Isn't our ennui over space tied to our larger cultural deadness? The scientific and technological wonders that promised to liberate mankind are now so much our unyielding masters, and we their yielding slaves. Every computer crash and bug subsconsciously reminds us that we've become, in Thoreau's words, "the tools of our tools." In the process space has gone from dreaming and exploration to packing sardines in a can and sending them into a void at high risk of death. The race must think more boldly than this to maintain its sanity, but mankind's long-term future does rest in sardine cans.

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