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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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Saturday, August 06, 2005

Posted 12:24 PM by Gene

OMERTA LAUGHS and waves BYE-BYE through his REAR-VIEW MIRROR. I don't want to come down too hard on the writers -- these are historians, and they've written a well-praised bio of J. Robert Oppenheimer -- but one wonders if it will take another century before we can dispense with the politics of WWII, politics all too well tied in to ours. They do not help their cause by using the sort of boldface-and-italics code words that would appeal to a bludgeoning editor like MERT: "patriotically correct," "definitively," "unilateralism," "arrogance." It is hard not to think of the idea of the SOVIETS prompting Japan's surrender, however "definitive" the evidence, without imagining a certain sort of super-liberal breaking out in a cynical chuckle. Yes, atomic bombs are BAD, but some people who would use them are worse -- even IF we "inspired" them.

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