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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, September 29, 2006

Posted 1:05 PM by Gene

The problem with "learning" Klingon is that if enough people do it it crowds out more useful preoccupations en masse, like reading good books, or listening to good music, or hiking, or swimming, eventually getting the mass to become self-justifying. Even more troublesome is how timewasting activities have become crucial in people's lives. Fantasy sports, "learning" Klingon, producing the umpteenth Star Wars clone video, living in virtual communites: all push real life off to the sidelines, and disengagement from society to midfield -- and for no better reason than for people to be proud to be stupid.

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