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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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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Posted 10:00 AM by Gene

What gets us mad about this story is that we've been told for decades we had no future in manufacturing. Now thanks in considerable measure to Cramermaniacs and their insane financial alchemy that made every metal platinum we're back in business, albeit employing maybe two more people than ten years ago. The great deindustrialization of America was based in no small part on corporate malevolence, on LEGENDARY WELCHES who hated the little guy, and now that we've thoroughly deindustrialized we're discovering we need industry again. This is why we rage when news hacks turn ST. WARRENS into GODS and CEOs into the stuff of myth; they blind our leaders to our needs in the fierce shine of their admiration. And this is why we doubly hate our governing superiors and their obsessions with GAMING, convention and stadium Taj Mahals and the AHTS.

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