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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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Monday, October 27, 2008

Posted 10:33 PM by Gene

I think I see what Jonny's trying to get at -- that Al Franken could be a great Senator because he's iconoclastic. Problem is (beyond the cliché that Congress reeks with comedians) the House already had a Rush Limbaugh, and PILLHEAD's partisans ascribe to Him a fiery wit, which usually takes the form of self-serving tantrums. No, we'd guess Al's iconcolasm won't rise above the level of boilerplate, seasoned with an occasional media-friendly bon mot, or, with luck, a little foolish foot-stomping --- and we doubt he'll pass as much legislation as wind.

Better still, of course, would be to let Franken be Franken, or rather what he thinks Franken should be, which would mean a campaign issue every day.

(Via The Daily Beast)

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