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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, April 28, 2003

Posted 6:22 PM by Gene

This is what the Legendary Welch crowd, the great mass of corporate Babbitts, calls "progress": Turn every last acre of farmland into Mallopia, and then plunk people down in cars on highways for hours to get there. It is not progress to build in inner cities, or let people work and shop close to home, or to spend on mass transit (the hard-core conservative has a word for that: BOONDOGGLE), but it is progress to destroy our cities, ruin our meadows, waste our resources, and injure our psyches -- all in the damfool name of "progress."

(And how appropriate that Little Jeffrey, whose company screamed out of New York to escape NIG -- er, taxes, is among the Forbes slideshow's sponsors.)

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