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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, April 12, 2008

Posted 10:35 AM by Gene

A pioneering notion of RENDELLISM (sorry to use the word three times in one day) was that decommissioned military bases would magically transform themselves into industrial parks, housing developments, tourist destinations, and so on. What's happened to the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro is mostly so on -- nearly nine years after its closure, practically nothing has happened. Well, something might have happened if the local GUVNORS hadn't given the store away to BABBITTS, and if BABBITTS hadn't then given the housing store away. Wouldn't it have been better to sell the ground piecemeal, or just tear up the airstrips and make a nature preserve? We'd guess the few successful conversions have had HUGE inflows of GUVMENT AID anyway.

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