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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, July 14, 2006

Posted 9:23 AM by Gene

We have not commented on the calamity in the Big Dig because so much of the activity is finger pointing, and one element of the finger pointing is to demand criminal prosecutions. We recall (and we think we've said this before) how Mike Royko, in one of his few weak moments, demanded criminal prosecutions after Challenger. All they do is put people in jail, and they don't address the rot at the core of disasters like this, a rot eating away at the public and private sectors, a mutually agreeable rot at that.

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