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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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Thursday, September 04, 2003

Posted 5:53 PM by Gene

I suppose this story about the closing of a local department-store chain on Long Island should concern only Long Islanders, but to me it's another melancholy symbol of everything that's gone wrong with downtowns. As I've said before, the right hook from the businessmen who ran screaming from our cities at the sight of the first "nig - " -- you get the idea, and the left cross from the Je$$es who believed blacks had a constitutional right to commit crime (never mind if blacks were the victims), and our cities were down for the count. Every kind of elixir has been used -- urban renewal, government bribes, adaptive reuse, sports boondoggles, higher learning, the "arts," the Web, and nothing has worked. Today's businessmen have no desire to return, using their ever-more-advanced PC as a cover and an excuse, and the Je$$es are still determined to fleece the taxpayer and victimize ghetto dwellers, and we're still in an urban stalemate.

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