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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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Friday, April 18, 2003

Posted 3:44 PM by Gene

Only in Washington does treason pay so well. Or rather that form of treason called high-powered lawyering. The hard-heartedness on display at many of Washington's "finest" firms would break drill bits on oil wells; precisely this sort of unspeakable pragmatic money-grubbing forces you to view Dick Cheney from the corner of your eye. Of course Papa's aide-de-camp the "Honorable" Jim Baker is among the enemy Saudis' friends. Here's one reason we can't celebrate too hard about winning in Iraq, proper and just though it was; we won for elements of a ruling class that would scotch the whole thing if the retainer was right.

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