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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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Monday, March 17, 2003

Posted 11:19 AM by Gene

I wish I could remember the name of that Marxist painting from the twenties or thereabouts that's actually a favorite of hard-core conservatives. You've seen it: The one where top-hats and gowns are dancing madly on a ballroom floor while crunched underneath it are the shabby working oppressed. It's a favorite of hard-core conservatives because they identify with the ballroom dancers.

That the screaming polemicist Susan Faludi made her career with alleged suicides at Safeway notwithstanding, only the hard-core conservative would laugh at the plight of the former employees of Enron. More than a few of the conservatives' number have sneered, "Nobody held a gun to their heads and said they had to buy Enron stock for their pension plans." True, but the future must have looked golden then, and Enron, like GE Bancorp or Microsoft, was forever.

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