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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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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Posted 4:13 PM by Gene

If you're Big Oil and you're going to say I'm sorry you'd better be sure you don't have anything to be sorry for now. I'm sure virtually all Chevron's employees are good, kind, decent, ethical people. But all it takes is one cynical CEO or senior exec wanting to score a cheap point on the public, or trying to excuse one festering sore point in the operation, and they become a big pile of doggie doo. In short, the company is using its employees as human shields for operating in Myanmar, and when the company is exposed, it's not the CEO or senior exec who loses -- he has options and a golden parachute -- but the blameless employees.

That's why I'm angry at Chevron's PR stunt.

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