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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, July 08, 2003

Posted 7:43 PM by Gene

Virginia had a fit because the "political discourse" is dominated by people who scream a lot. Does she recall the story of Andy Jackson's wife? Heck Tom Paine was a pretty hot-tempered guy himself. Of course the difference between Paine and the Michael Moore of the right, Ann Coulter, and the Ann Coulter of the left, Michael Moore, is that a) Paine was one of the most brilliant poltical writers of any time, and b) the tantrum throwers can't create sentences longer than five words without their brains seizing up. Of course one reason we have the screaming meemies is that for decades the news biz was dominated by total bores like the late Scotty Reston and the seemingly late David Broder, who couldn't write a sentence without nodding off. Besides, how can you discuss certain topics without achieving a frenzy? I agree, though, there is a bit too much of the sideshow and the flashing red light to this current crop of maniacs -- but that's far more a function of our show-bizzy society, not our politics.

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