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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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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Posted 1:26 PM by Gene

I wonder if the Catholic church may have squandered an opportunity here. It's a measure of how very politically unsavvy the church can be that it did not choose a younger man, a man from (as the otherwise fool Cardinal Mahony suggested) a nation with more devotion to the church's teachings, a strong traditionalist who was yet vigorous enough to stare down his enemies. Let's face it, his age matters too; the new Pope is only six years younger than whom he replaced. Already there are rumblings on Free Republic about this, and about the fact that he served in the German Army during the war, apparently under duress. If we have half the Pope we lost we will have a leader. That said, one wonders if the College of Cardinals appointed exactly what its members said, what the former Cardinal Ratzinger said they wouldn't appoint -- a transitional figure.

We should all wish the Pope Godspeed -- for our sake, let alone for his.

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