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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, March 30, 2009

Posted 6:31 PM by Gene

More bad news for TheEconomistAtlanticNewYorkerII: This story is but a variation on the why-are-our-teens-having-so-much-sex article. Such articles are by their length and breadth mea culpa (being mostly published by SHOW-BIZ COMPANIES) and come to the conclusion that nothing can be done, which in the end makes the owner smile, and the reader grimace and tear the rag in shreds (much easier nowadays). This author (with help) alleges that girls are making themselves up at an alarming rate. Say they're having sex at an alarming rate and it's the same infernal thing. Aside from the prospect of beholding girls with faces like traffic lights or Tide bottles we don't see the crisis, except one that's manufactured, and which ultimately soothes the mind of any media mogul. JonBoy, you do not become erudite with such guff!

Or is this a veiled call for more beauty ads? Maybe St. Warren's in the wrong part of the publishing biz.

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