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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, March 26, 2006

Posted 4:58 PM by Gene

Further on Mark Twain, he's another one of those who can be cited on anything, by anyone, for anything. William Dean Howells called him "the Lincoln of our literature," but at his most mischievious he was also our Jefferson. This story could have gotten a few good contradictory grafs from him: one on replacing a beaten down hulk of a church at over twice the cost of new because it's an "historic landmark" vaguely associated with him; one on his atheism (we fear he'd have sounded like a Hollywood scenarist on that one); and one on charitable giving. We would not want to presume exactly how Samuel Langhorne would have written on this, and God (or as he might put it, god) knows he wrote too much, be we'd like to think it would be good for a laugh.

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