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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, September 12, 2003

Posted 8:37 AM by Gene

Before the link disappears, I note Amir Taheri's credibly optimistic take on our terror war, knock on wood. Most noteworthy is the business regarding The Osama Channel's latest addition to its tremendous movie library: some cretinous "middleman" wanted $250,000 for the tape and got $25,000. Mr. Taheri persuasively argues that Osama died in the bombardment of Tora Bora. I believe that too -- in his latest epic the great inspiration of Muslims everywhere looks as he did before the war, and would he be dumb enough to walk in the open and test our reconnaissance? But it's still best to think him alive, and mentally ward ourselves from another of his holy preachments.

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