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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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Thursday, March 13, 2003

Posted 3:24 PM by Gene

For some time -- and I've been shopping there for about two years -- I've felt eBay was full of itself and has deserved a big comedown. With luck it could be the Mickey D's of the Web. It already is in a way: it's The Company You Love to Hate. And the stock never declines; it's selling at a twelve-month high now and its PE is 96. Evidently Meg (pronounced "mug") Whitman thinks this is still the spring of 2000. The Forbes writer uses the word "hubris." I wouldn't want to bet against eBay; as with Mickey-Mouse Michael (under whom Meg-Pronounced-Mug once labored), too many good things have happened to these bad people. But we can hope.

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