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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, January 19, 2009

Posted 10:42 AM by Gene

We're beginning to wonder how much value there is in an economy "growing". If the "growth" is among the Richie Riches and not the working stiffs that doesn't qualify to me as growth. That's what happened in the eighties and nineties. I'd rather an economy didn't grow and at least kept most people in jobs than an economy grow solely for Richie Riches.

People going into hock en masse to buy things they don't need does not qualify as growth in my book either.

Also we still seem to be paying for the Geek Boom at the turn of the century (which the housing psychosis cleverly hid), when business went on a hardware binge, much of it we'd suspect went underused, and practically all of which has since been sent for recycling.

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