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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, November 24, 2007

Posted 2:31 PM by Gene

I suppose one could look upon sprawl as a natural condition of mankind. Our nation was founded on sprawl; our forebears wanted to get away from the smelly, grimy cities like London for land and an opportunity; in time, the pioneers wanted to get away from the smelly, grimy cities like New York and Philadelphia for the same reason, and so on and so on, in smaller and smaller increments, until now America's one big interstate and shopping mall and subdivision with nothing in between. Strange, though: the people of Asia seem to like their smelly, grimy cities, perhaps as they already realize in time all those suburbs will become smelly, grimy places of their own, as a few already have.

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