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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, April 11, 2008

Posted 4:52 PM by Gene

IDIOCY: Here in EDDIETOWN!!!!!, hotels are the new condos. They have to be because Babbitts have wasted so much money on condos. At 17th and Sansom someone is reviving a fine old Arte Moderne office tower to the purpose -- and that we can see, as the offices have mahogany paneling and the rooms are too small for offices. At 15th and Locust, however, someone is planning a twenty-plus-story hotel -- right across the street from a white-elephant condo, and also across from an apartment house. With another apartment building on the corner diagonally opposite and another large hulking condo nearby the intersection will be bathed in black on a sunny day, and no one in any of the buildings will have a view - but heck, money is for BURNING!

(Corrected 4/12 at 12:30 p.m.; wrong address for the hotel under renovation.)

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