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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, August 29, 2008

Posted 10:53 AM by Gene

Reading this 1,935-WORD puff for Michigan Football Corp. one must be hopeful for long-term failure. Not that we have anything against it or its parent firm, necessarily, but spending revenues on boxes for rich folks (in an economically depressed state to boot) and paying the COO $50 million a year sounds like precisely the sort of thing corporate America -- or big government -- does best: throwing money at a "problem." Nonetheless the success of professional football's second-division teams depends on the players, not the amenities. Notre Dame Football Corp. is probably the most lavishly appointed outfit -- and it's stunk out the stadium the last few years (by Gipper standards, anyway). Yes, we hope for failure, and we know better than to expect it, but it isn't personal.

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