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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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Friday, March 14, 2008

Posted 8:38 AM by Gene

One area where Amazon.com seems to do quite well with its customer ratings is in specialist books, which tend to be reviewed by people who know what they're doing. I mention that because one of BloomyLite's columnists reviews a scathing book about the Wizard of Oz, and there is no avoiding the notion that his rep is headed to the proverbial historical ash heap. Indeed when I looked it up I found no fewer than four books which debunk his infinite wisdom. Why in the Wiz' name did we blind ourselves to him for so long? The age of Wiz was, of course the age of the omnipotent CEO, and neither could ever do wrong -- until after the fact.

P. S.

As the stock bubble swelled in the 1990s, Greenspan became mesmerized by the theory that technology had boosted productivity far more than was understood. He concluded that ``there was no bubble under way because technology expenditures weren't accounted for correctly, meaning that stock prices weren't nearly as high as they seemed,'' Fleckenstein writes.

The WIZ invented DOW 36,000ISM!

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