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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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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Posted 11:25 AM by Gene

One reason the cities went into hopeless decline is that after the businessmen and the JE$$Es conspired to bring them down a few Pointy-Haired Bosses thought they'd build them back up depositing refrigerators in their downtowns, which only made them that much more depressing. This, of course, is the Brutalist school of architecture. The Sears Tower defines it: "a big, hulking building with stone and steel inside. There's no wood or carpet for warmth." And since 9/11 it's had trouble finding tenants because it's such an upraised thumb in the sky. Buildings like this are a vertical version of sprawl. And architects haven't the foggiest idea of what to do for cities now, other than the practical jokes rising in Dubai and Beijing.

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