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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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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Posted 8:17 AM by Gene

Gerald Ford fell up. He fell up from football herodom to the law to the Navy to the House to the vice-presidency to the White House. His only bad luck was when he became president. And then he fell down. He decided to make amends for all his good luck by Writing Himself into the History Books and into a kind of Fairy-Tale Land where he could Live Forever. If The Pardon now seems not so important it was still a kind of moral evasion -- and its outcome was hardly a salve as it brought us JIMMAH and HIS long national nightmare. Having Written Himself into the History Books he all but ignored Southeast Asia and stagflation. After saying something stupid about the Poles during a debate he retired for a long life of golf and profitable speechmaking. Gerald Ford was a good and decent man, but America needed more, and he was not up to it.

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