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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, April 07, 2006

Posted 8:52 AM by Gene

ANNOYING: Amity Shlaes, who used to work for THE WALL STREET JOURNALS CONSERVATIVE EDITION or some such true-believing outpost, lashes at Massachusetts, er, NEW YORK would-be governor Bill Weld for proposing state income tax cuts for "the middle class." The problem -- and it's ALWAYS the problem with a certain con-SER-va-tive -- is that YOU-KNOW-WHO would pay more. She proposes a flat income tax, or no tax. We can see the virtue in that; but the problem is, when a con-SER-va-tive proposes these things we must always look with suspicion, as when con-SER-va-tives propose lower taxes for "the middle" they're usually not doing it to flatter the middle -- and most of those proposing tax cuts are NOT in the middle anymore. We doubt Amity's seen it in YEARS.

She also says it would increase the state's deficits. Since when has THAT been a problem?

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