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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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Monday, November 10, 2003

Posted 5:32 PM by Gene

Here's more conservative blather, from the usually ham-handed Fred Barnes. Since Ronald Reagan "founded the pro-life movement," what does it have to show for it? Abortions have held pretty much steady since his first inauguration. Only now is it gaining traction, in the jerks and spurts of parental notification decrees and the partial-birth-abortion ban -- and these could well be overturned by the Nine Fingers in the Wind. I would not wager that the "right" to abortion will be overturned anytime soon, as it's become the raison d'etre of modern liberalism and all its mouthpieces, but also because it's so firmly rooted in the culture of utilitarian convenience.

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