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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 6:10 PM by Gene

Here's a story that should get more airplay: three super-rich foundations want to move the celebrated Barnes art collection from its cramped, little-visited location in Lower Merion Township outside Philadelphia to a grand museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. But there's a catch: in a move the news hacks would call quirky, the man who collected the art gave controlling rights to Lincoln University, a black state school. In an unreported outrage, Julian Bond, a champion race-baiter, threw a blood-vessel-bursting temper tantrum because honky wanted to deprive the black man of JUSTICE. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, and now the move is close to getting underway. Philadelphia deserves this museum, and Lincoln University deserves a say, and an emolument, and both can come out smelling like roses.

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