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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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Thursday, August 19, 2004

Posted 5:09 PM by Gene

Seeing as how the flacks must mention Mary Lou Retton, she fit perfectly in the Reagan years -- with a brash unwholesomeness that made me think gymnastics wasn't her game, it was real estate. That she made a success at the Ueberroth Capitalist Festival and became an inescapable menace in practically every shopping mall does not endear her memory to me either. Already the MORONS in Oak Brook and Hoffman Estates are wasting their consumers' hard-earned bucks on this new one. Oh well, just another way of saying, "I WAS AT THE OLYMPICS AND YOU WEREN'T!!!!!"

QUICK! Who who were gymnastics idols in Sydney? IN ATLANTA? It is rather hard to remember.

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