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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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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Posted
5:33 PM
by Gene
We know, WE KNOW DOW 36,000, because there was NO INCOME TAX, and most people earned FIVE CENTS A DAY, and because there hyperambitious greedy SOBS like John D. Rockefeller, the ECONOMY WENT UP HALF A MILLION PERCENT AS....THIS is why FREE-EN-TER-PRISE CON-SER-VA-TIVES exasperate me: they have a FAITH in THE MARKET as COMMUNISTS have a FAITH in the CONTROL ECONOMY. This is why I always say they want a ONE-COMPANY STATE: with their luscious creed of LAISSEZ FAIRE and CAVEAT EMPTOR, THAT'S WHAT WE'D GET. When do these IDIOTS REHABILITATE HENRY FORD? And he STARTED OFF GOOD.
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