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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, October 19, 2008

Posted 4:56 PM by Gene

I'm now convinced the big consumer retailers are run by men whose hobby is pulling the wings off flies. Take CVS. I just bought an item for 95 cents. I got back a three-foot-long register tape. Plus at least some of its stores require ID with credit cards, but not debit. To protect the customer, they lie. It's to discourage credit-card use so they can PAY LESS ON FEES.

And lately the several A&Ps where I have to shop for groceries have taken to playing seventies foreground Muzak. I am convinced it's a malevolent inside joke -- especially as the A seems to have gone on a price-hiking spree, perhaps to pay for buying Pathmark. What sort of idiots do they think we are?

Yet there is no changing either company; both live on captive customers.

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