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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, February 14, 2005

Posted 5:07 PM by Gene

It is customary to laugh at bowling, a sport as much in the past as HOCKEY soon will be, a sport of Lebowskis and Kowalskis, a sport that invented the term lounge before it was done to death, a sport so low-class it made horse racing look good. Cliches all, albeit with a slight dollop of truth. So it is nonetheless sad to learn that Dick Weber, the Perry Como of the sport, has died. He symbolized the time when ABC devoted every Saturday to it, when Chris Schenkel would breathlessly intone every strike and Nelson Burton Jr. would whisperingly analyze every split. Bowling was the comfort food of sport, not very exciting, but it didn't have to be. I miss it.

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