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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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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Posted 5:00 PM by Gene

This morning I was in a sour mood. I no longer refer to any professional sports team in the first person plural. I have reasons. All a championship does is make the owners richer and break up the franchise. Once we had strong civic ties to our sports teams. The players lived in our midsts, didn't they? I doubt if many of our city's Seligism franchise live in the area, let alone Philadelphia. The public knows better; the TV ratings for this year's Seligfest are a bomb. The "sport" has devolved into strong regional franchises propped up by CEOs and cable systems, indeed so strongly wedded to regionalism and cable as to take away its national following. Three decades ago the mass might have cared who won the Series. Does it care now?

As for "our" team, I suppose (being a municipal worker) we'll get half-a-day off to "celebrate". Knowing how stupids overran Broad Street the last time I think I'll go to the library.

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