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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, April 22, 2008

Posted 4:56 PM by Gene

Leaving the train station on the way home I saw a hundred or more screaming yelling happy people waving Hillary signs, with a few big banners for The Messiah amongst, everyone cheering and smiling, the policemen moving them back to clear the traffic, and I thought, if only I could be that merry, supporting a candidate. Why must political happiness end in youth? Scanning the ballot at the polling place in the middle of work (quite a respectable turnout -- over 200 when I left) I saw most of the candidates ran unopposed. But for an artificially contrived rivalry between a couple of candidates too far close in outlook to merit anything but scorn this would be another gloomy run-of-the-mill marking of time, something the hacks seem incapable of remembering when they speak with grin to the mirror of soaring interest.

Did you know RON PAUL!!!!!'s on the ballot in Pennsylvania? I didn't. So is Gov. Hucklechuckle, who was holy before The Messiah took Heaven lock, stock and barrel away from him.

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