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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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Monday, May 14, 2007

Posted 8:32 AM by Gene

We will confess not to have heard of Theodore H. Maiman, but we can say we have heard of the laser, and that the story of its veritable inventor's death seems to have gotten swallowed in the news maw is inexcusable. It is hard to imagine a more multifaceted invention. We can understand though why its inventor would be ignored; scientists are no longer the crusading geniuses of boys' fiction, if they ever were. Indeed there's the problem with modern scientists: they're as indistinguishable as Dilberts. Let us remember him, though, the next time we get our groceries scanned, or put a on a CD or DVD.

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