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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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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Posted 6:28 PM by Gene

Here's the umpteenth story of our woebegone retailers. We have NO SYMPATHY for them. The retailing SUPEREXPANSION started when department stores ran SCREAMING out of the cities at the sight of the first black man, then built to a climax as other retailers huddled together in malls around their pioneering race prejudice, then got superhot as America's financial screwlooses disgorged zillions of credit cards. They created untold stores we don't need selling untold goods we don't use, destroyed our cities, ruined our manufacturing with their constant clamor for idiot low costs, and put untold people out of work. Too many of these chains were overdue to implode. Only with this disaster do we finally learn how little we needed them.

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