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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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Sunday, April 10, 2005

Posted 4:28 PM by Gene

I just reminded myself of something to post about two days hence, especially given my second item today: Tuesday will be the 60th anniversary of FDR's death. Expect lots of con-SER-va-tive fuming over what a wicked man he was as the father of big government (couldn't Honest Abe lay claim to that?), with undertones of Pat Buchanan's Pearl Harbor conspiracy theory. Yes, FDR did things he shouldn't have: he had way too much faith in bureaucrats and eggheads, he tried packing the Supreme Court, he paid little attention to the Jews of Europe, he interned the Japanese-Americans; at worst he could be devious indeed. But he did win a war, and he chose his successor well, despite himself, and he did come to realize -- albeit too late for him -- that America could not trust Stalin or his blood-soaked henchmen. Close doesn't just count in horseshoes, and FDR was close enough.

It will also be the 60th anniversary of the accession of Harry Truman. Con-SER-va-tives will think of something with him too.

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