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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, April 07, 2009

Posted 7:11 PM by Gene

The newsrag up north that shares a name with a toothpaste has done its own take on religious decline. Look, you can't deny something's at work here. What used to be called assimilation works against religious identity; so does the dumbing down of religious traditions. So does prosperity, which knocks a pretty fair prop out from under the need for churchgoing. Modern culture offers its own version of omnipotence. That Islam almost alone shows an increase is a function of its community's intense social cohesion and a faith strict enough to inspire -- militants. In the end, who wants to be bored with bad music, bad preaching and bad politics -- what too much of religious "life" has come to? The people are not dead to religion, but religion is too often dead to the people.

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