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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 05, 2009

Posted 6:04 PM by Gene

IN MEMORIAM: Last summer the folks at Steen, in loving cooperation with the TWXSTERS, turned one of their billboards into a eulogistic tribute to the recently deceased movie Get Smart. (Although we shouldn't say recently; most movies are born brain-dead.) Now, in February, Steen is paying respectful tribute to a recently deceased jeweler, Jack Kellmer Co. Its Saturday-ending going-out-of-business sale has been an I-95 fixture since well before the outfit closed three weeks ago. Perhaps the Steeners were sad to see it go, and could not part with their cherished memories. We too join the salute, but we would remind the Steeners that billboards, unlike diamonds, are not forever.

And they do have some fine watches for sale!

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