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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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Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Posted 6:28 PM by Gene

A rare personal note (rare in that I don't believe my private life should be on my blog, not that it would interest people): yesterday I learned from Edifice Complex College's alumni bulletin and a Google search that a girl I'd "dated" in college and who thus captured a small role in my never-to-be-published comic novel died last autumn in a hospice after a very long illness. (She was my age.) After several decades I still find it difficult to accept people who did me wrong, yet I felt an ineffable sadness knowing one of my characters was now gone, and I forgave her.

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