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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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Friday, November 18, 2005

Posted 11:19 AM by Gene

And here's a FLIP side, though it doesn't appear in His paper. It's a story written in code words: "[A] widely respected Republican senator from Nebraska," "A decorated marine veteran and ranking Democrat on the House defence appropriations subcommittee" -- this is the sort of insidious language Hank Luce used to elect presidents, and it stinks whatever side you're on. One possible explanation is that this came after a brain transplant using the organ of the late Robert "Beat Me" Fisk, but only a quarter of the brain worked.

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