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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, December 01, 2003

Posted 8:44 AM by Gene

Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel, has died at 97, and it's a measure of how far we've come from understanding such accomplishments that the oafs at USA Okay (or one of Curley's [Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!] Stooges) headline it, "Superstar of the 1920s dead." What? Her swim was a year before Lindbergh's flight. The hopes of nations rode on their shoulders. These were the icons for an age of enormous achievement, an age that still lingers in our hearts, and today we don't have one person who could even come close to their power to move us.

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