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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, August 21, 2005

Posted 9:25 AM by Gene

Was John's heart really into this column? We've read too much of NEWSRAGS to suspect how they're written. We too are mad at the NPCPCAA and its politically-correct call to ban Indian (NATIVE AMERICAN) mascots, and the people who would ban junk food; we too are mad at the self-righteousness that has pervaded our private realms since the coming of John Banzhaf, but this past week also disclosed a survey that rather strongly linked R movies to juvenile delinquency. Does any time someone complains about a societal malfunction we now call it NANNYISM? This is the detritus of some forgotten scribbler named Kilpatrick, a faux-Mencken who probably didn't believe half what he wrote so long as he had his conservative shtick. Pills have always been part of American life, and for the most part they've made things better; today's pills largely suffer from the law of diminishing returns.

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