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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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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Posted 2:05 PM by Gene

The anonymous hack who calls him/her/itself "The Washington Prowler" says using Democrat as an adjective is the bee's knees. It's not enough to remind us why many conservatives found Jim "The Beamed-Up Crook" Traficant a great orator. We already have enough offenses against English, some grammatical ("disinterested" meaning uninterested), others well-intended ("flammable" for inflammable), others grating polticospeak (the "floating 'hopefully'", the overuse of "frankly"), others grating PR speak ("edgy", "metrosexual"), others flat-out evasive euphemisms ("the n word"). Twerps like the Prowler love Democrat as an adjective because they think it STICKS it to Fatso Glub-Glubs; but in the process of pricking such buffoons they draw blood from those of us who take offense at these small demolition jobs on our language, whose ultimate purpose is to make us all sound STOOPID.

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