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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, November 02, 2006

Posted 6:36 AM by Gene

There is this notion that politics has left a legendary SKNNNNNNNNNNX-presided Valhalla of "civility" and saintliness for our own current hell. We forget that Andy Jackson's wife was viciously slandered; Jackson blamed her death on it. We forget the campaign of 1840, unprecedented in its dishonesty. We forget when Abe Lincoln was called an ape. We forget the 1884 election, of Grover Cleveland's illegitimate son and James G. Blaine's railroad dealings. More recently JFK was chastised solely for his religion. Yes, I'd like the tantrum throwers to shut up, but we mustn't forget Mr. Dooley's old saying, "politics ain't beanbag", even if the participants too often are.

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