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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, December 07, 2003

Posted 5:17 PM by Gene

BLUNDER's story on America's lawsuit orgy is well-meaning, but in the end it can't erase its own responsibility for it; didn't BLUNDER, like so many other liberal rags, cheer at the profusion of ciggie suits? And where did a lot of the money go? To lawyers' fees and government pork. (The Econowiz was one of the few publications to see that coming.) More to the point, to change suing society requires changing society, and if 9/11 couldn't knock any sense into our heads, what will? We're too far down the road of PC and self-indulgence.

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