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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, November 20, 2005

Posted 5:23 PM by Gene

We're defeatist over taking it to corporate America on things like this because we've come to believe that rotting canard that the sole purpose of business is making money. True it is that Samuel Gompers said the worst crime against working people is a losing company, but that didn't mean business should be run with absolutely no higher purpose. Before it became a corporate villain Wal-Mart prided itself on being the good guy. Henry Ford did not pay his assembly line $5 a day out of the profit motive. W. K. Kellogg, whose company has such visceral hatred for its customers, was a health nut who wanted to cure TB. The formative years of our industry are filled with stories like Walter P. Chrysler's, who led a zealous crusade for better cars, or J. C. Penney's, apostle of hard work, thrift and the Golden Rule. No, the antisocial behavior of big business is a paraphrase of another old saw, from National Review: any business not expressly moral will turn immoral over time.

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