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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, January 03, 2005

Posted 12:58 PM by Gene

McDONALD'S COULDN'T CARE LESS: Today I was in my local Mickey D's what used to play salsa, only they don't play salsa anymore -- or anything. If only more retailers took up the challenge; just turning off Muzak in its 500 permutations could reduce heart attacks and strokes. I couldn't help though hearing the radio in the food prep area (DON'T call it the kitchen; Mickey D's never had one), not loud, but noticeable enough to placate the help, and it was a CHEAPCHANNELVIACON because it played a ten-minute profit break, and right in the middle was a Wendy's ad. Ray Kroc (whoever he was) would have turned over in his grave, but that would have been a futile gesture as Mickey D's, like so much of corporate America, is about NOTHING.

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