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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 1:27 PM by Gene

If this article is to be believed -- and unfortunately, you have to go by the source, which is CONSERVATIVE -- Abercrombie and Fitch has stopped selling porn in its stores. This ranked with anything at Boeing as a shining example of corporate "responsibility." "Well we only sell to over 18 and FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS and nobody's forcing you to buy it and blahblahblahblah...." Problem is, the target audience -- MINORS -- appears to be getting more conservative, plus the company was threatened with boycotts, PLUS other retailers were getting mad because they could suffer collateral damage from the boycotts. Here is democracy in action stopping a sleaze peddler. Maybe we're not that far gone yet.

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