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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, June 27, 2003

Posted 6:31 AM by Gene

I am hard-pressed to judge Strom Thurmond's significance. Yes, he led the Dixiecrat walkout of the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia in '48, presaging the South's walkout of the party in the decades following; but what else did he do? His Senior Outhouse career was as undistinguished as it was long. Name one piece of -- legislation for which he's famous. No, Strom Thurmond was a get-along, go-along politician, changing allegiance with the changing times, who'll be remembered, thanks to serving in his old age under the Kliegl lights of television, as a doddering puppet for staff-member ventriloquists. I'm not sure that's how he should be remembered; I'm not sure that's how he shouldn't be.

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