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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, February 12, 2009

Posted 5:49 PM by Gene

Con-SER-va-tives are screaming a lot about this publicity stunt with Mr. Wilders. This writer says his film is a kind in Michael Mooreism. We won't judge, having not seen it, nor wanting to see it. To the extent it may be an empty exercise in iconoclasm it should be ridiculed, as was Fatso. But we are certainly troubled by the censorship being practiced by an allegedly European country (and England gets more alleged every day); and more to the point, we are troubled that the continent's empty-headed bureaucrats would hide under their big fat taxpayer-wasting desks at the sight of an Islamist, and make excuses for him. What stinks, then, isn't so much the censorship; it's the potential for blazing sanctimonious hypocrisy.

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