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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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Sunday, August 17, 2003

Posted 4:54 PM by Gene

Speaking of David v. Goliath, Consumers Union's top honcho mentions precisely that duo in complaining he'll have to spend millions fighting off Suzuki's lawsuit on the Samurai, still very much in the courts. Honest, I wonder where David went. Yes, Suzuki is a multi-billion company, 20%-owned by the tone-deaf managers of GM -- and Consumer Reports is one of America's leading magazines, and its publisher has easy access to the vast news media when it issues warnings. And perhaps CU is in trouble because it can never fully escape its New Deal and labor-union beginnings, or its friend-of-the-court alliance with the left, or its well-established biases -- CR is one important reason its boomer following thinks Japanese cars are better; it has also spoken out against SUVs. That said, Suzuki would have been better off admitting its fault and building a better SUV than throwing a decade-long tantrum.

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