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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, August 17, 2006

Posted 6:52 AM by Gene

I am glad Mr. Mark cares about our credit-card crunch, but this is one of those stories that makes you wonder why you bother to follow the news, and that makes you suspicious of its every motive. No sooner are we on page two than we get a factoid from something called the Center for American Progress -- and Mr. Mark has NEVER heard of Google; looking it up we find this:

Democratic think tank viewed as the Left's version of the conservative Heritage Foundation.

The article also quotes no Republican. And so we get two contradictory anger-provoking thoughts: is this mere spin? And where are the Republicans? In bed with bankers?

As we noted yesterday, there is no leadership for most of us; it's either one bad guy or the other.

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