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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, March 12, 2003

Posted 5:05 PM by Gene

I don't know why people have to take things like turning Pennsylvania Avenue into Checkpoint Charlie lying down. The same bit of business happened here in Philadelphia, on Chestnut Street before Independence Hall, which has been closed and barricaded for months. A huge petition drive convinced Mayor Street to reopen it to cars. I think I can just understand why a thoroughfare in front of the White House must be closed to vehicles, but the symbolism of walling off everything with guardboxes and Jersey barricades and ugly flower pots is so offensive the feds should seek every alternative before creating their no-people zones and intolerable traffic jams. Yes, a psycho or a holy cockroach can happen at any time -- and so can an asteroid. Is it worth it?

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