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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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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Posted 7:56 PM by Gene

The other day one of The Corner's inmates stomped his feet and screamed "UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!" at a Paper of Re-CORD writer's suggestion that "the tedious and humiliating rigmarole of airport security" was "unjustified." Now the Harvard School of Public Health has said the same thing. Of course there are many reasons for the tedious and humiliating rigamarole, including a seven-letter plural proper noun that begins with a capital M and an eleven-letter singular common noun that begins with a lower-case b, and a four-letter acronym that begins in A and ends in U (and let us not forget a seven-letter plural common noun beloved of con-SER-va-tives that begins with a lower case p and ends with an $), but that we haven't had an incident in over six years may not mean the system is working, or that it's any good. There must be a better way, but so long as we have Dubyas and ossified airline execs and PC con-SER-va-tives there won't be any.

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