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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, February 10, 2009

Posted 8:46 AM by Gene

If there was anything uplifting to be found in the address, it was in the contrast. Where President Bush steadily eroded his credibility over eight years in office, resorting to rosy statements about the war in Iraq, the response to flooding in New Orleans and the economic boom that all proved unfounded, Obama seems determined not to sugar-coat the facts. He told it harshly, without much adornment. With each grim pronouncement, he attempted to claim a level of confidence and competence — and even pragmatism — that the nation has not seen for a while.

TRANSLATION: I expect to keep MY job at this here newsrag for a long, long, LONG time.

Jay Carney said otherwise.

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