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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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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Posted 5:30 PM by Gene

Vista may be (as the CW has it) a fait accompli for being automatically offered with new computers, but this is the third time the Redmond monolith has made a big push for a new OS in twelve years, and forgive us for not thinking the third time the charm, but rather three strikes and you're out -- no matter how beautiful it is.

(We shouldn't sneer too much; we just got a free copy [or rather a product key enabling a download] of Office 2007 Professional for participating in a promotion. I'd rather have it than the OS. Now I won't have to worry about that part of the upgrade -- until the next planned obsolescence.)

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