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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, February 01, 2004

Posted 8:08 AM by Gene

The gray-goo crowd is pulling a JACK!- (or Whorvis-)worthy lobbying campaign to try to get people to accept it. This is what I love about science: it can be like a loaded Rube Goldberg-designed gun with a remote-control finger on the trigger -- and the target is you.

Okay, maybe I shouldn't have used that term, and I don't want to be one of the scaredy-cats, but we're not talking pollution, we're talking loads of variables that may dart beyond our control. And yes, science gave us neat things like computers and vaccines. It also gave us the atom bomb and Zyklon B.

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