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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, September 11, 2007

Posted 5:25 PM by Gene

There are many columnists of whom we could say, "Haven't you been writing for too long?" Like Bob Novak, Mr. My Business is My Business, Frank "Stroke" Rich, and Anna. Anna seems to prepare for a column by filling herself up with her most visceral dislikes (and you know what those are), and then venting her spleen -- through the filter of that gooey non-judgmental prose that makes her so sanctimonious and laughable at the same time. And we agree that our intelligence folks are probably as incompetent now as then, that too many people are concentrating on the real estate, and putting up the worst looking kind -- but dammit a typist like this makes you disagree with even her most valid points. And six years later it's still a hole in the ground, a much better looking hole in the ground, and that's a tribute to our lack of guts, something Anna may not find so disagreeable.

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