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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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Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Posted 5:03 PM by Gene

What could have gone through that bishop's mind as he drove away? I guess we shouldn't be too harsh; in the same circumstance we might panic too. But this wasn't a common criminal, or a teenager, or someone with a sixth-grade education. This was the putative leader of 430,000 Catholics. Had he a little common sense he'd have been moved to a momentary passion, and stopped his car to see what happened; and if what he preached was more than platitudes, or CYA for his turning the other cheek at buggery, he'd have seen what happened, and might have tried a little CPR, or at least dialed 911. But the leader of 430,000 Catholics just drove away, indicating that perhaps he didn't have common sense, and perhaps what he preached were mere platitudes -- in short, he was a Lawless Law of the West. What we do have here is tragic, but swift, justice.

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