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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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Friday, April 17, 2009

Posted 4:57 PM by Gene

Speaking of torture...I don't like masticating a subject everyone else has already digested. Torture makes us look like a third-world republic. But the seventies teach us the consequences of turning out the lights, locking the door and throwing away the key on national security, especially in the name of "morals". The villainous Henry Luce was once quoted as saying (or once quoted someone to the effect that) the hardest of heads guides the softest of hearts. Of course he had a hard heart too. He was still right.

And con-SER-va-tives who delude themselves into thinking this is Jimmy Carter Redux had better steel themselves up for a good dose of Nixon. And this Nixon may not need an enemies list to manifest the same effect.

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