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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 01, 2003

Posted 9:34 PM by Gene

This video from Floridatoday.com shows "debris" falling down Columbia's left side during liftoff. Ice? Challenger, of course, took off on an abnormally cold day, and if I'm not mistaken it had been somewhat chilly lately in Florida. The unidentified chunk goes dark, and then kicks up (or disintegrates in) a shower of debris at the end. Ice? Insulation? Both? You can't tell because of the selective darkness (and also because you can't back-and-forth the video).

Well prof, I'll give you a little benefit of the doubt. Something happened on the left side of Columbia. But let's wait until the experts convene. With our luck this will be all they can go by.

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