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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, May 31, 2004

Posted 5:59 PM by Gene

This is Memorial Day, and I must discuss the new WWII memorial on the Mall. Yes, it is torpid -- the staid archway, the dull topless columns -- but it was done by people who lived in an age that could not express the big things well in public, who were limited to a drab imitation of a drab imitation of the past, who saw in the few commemorations of their own awful time the self-effacing gesture, the trendy self-condemnation, the instant cliche. We must count ourselves lucky, though; had the job been given over to the kind of ARTISTES THE PAPER OF RECORD calls GENIUSES we'd have a scrapyard of TILTED ARCS. I am second to no one in admiring the boys' huge victory over evil, but that does not mean their rapidly fading generation didn't deserve better.

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