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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, May 05, 2003

Posted 6:24 AM by Gene

Why should we care about Iraqi art? Because for weeks, for months, we kept saying we'd get drubbed in this war, that we'd be fighting house-to-house street battles, that we'd take thousands of casualties, that we'd soon be caught in a -- quicksand, that anyone who said the Iraqis would cheer us was an ARROGANT BLUNDERer, but because the war ended weeks ago, and there's no end to nursing our psyches, we have to latch on some good news, any good news, that can prove it was unjustified, and so we've latched onto that @#$%^& MUSEUM -- with a VENGEANCE.

I fear I'll have to make this point until we all fall off a cliff, but the news hacks will make their point long after Iraq has recovered from the war.

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