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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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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Posted 5:08 PM by Gene

The petty tyrant Rep. Waxman seems about to win his campaign against Rep. Dingell the Michigan Fossil, and while we'd find it disheartening for such a tantrum thrower and would-be villain to get any advantage reading this AdAge story tells us if he can make MadAve and its dependents squirm for a few years that may not be entirely a bad thing.

And we do not use the term "villain" lightly, for one of Waxman's predecessors as chairman of the so-called House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was Dan Burton, who also threw tantrums and aspired to be a villain. We don't know whether it's that committee or just being a Congresspoop. We suspect it's the latter.

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