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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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Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Posted 5:18 PM by Gene

In its early manifestations the Ford Thunderbird was one of the most memorable cars ever made. Everyone knows the short sleek look of the beginning, but I like the '58, which made it a real cruising automobile; the '62, the perfect convertible, a vision in ovals; even the '64 with those unique square tail lights. Then the American auto industry started building look-alike clunkers, and the Thunderbird became just another car. Recently Ford tried to revive it, but after the initial "buzz" (I hate that word; it's made for news-hack dishonesty) sales petered out, and now the company's discontinuing it. There'll never be another great looking car -- from Detroit or anywhere else.

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