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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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Saturday, May 10, 2003

Posted 5:23 PM by Gene

Speaking of BAD, and Walnut Street, another one of Ed Rendell's attempted innovations was to turn our Center City into a permanent street festival. He couldn't do it, but today we had our annual one along the allegedly tonier part of Walnut near "The Square," with the usual outdoor food tents (I bought some not-bad Chinese food and have felt groggy ever since) and five bands per block from the Great White circuit (or as they call it now, The Big ONE-OH-OH) competing in wrong notes and pierced eardrums; they made the old coot (literally and figuratively) who spreads disease germs through his cornet in front of a store nearly every day sound good. One might seek solace in girlwatching when the weather's warm and humid, but alas, it was sixtyish and merely damp, and all the girls wore dirty-looking jeans (why can't women dress up again?), and I got tired of of the need to hold my ears (not because the music was loud, necessarily), and I went home.

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