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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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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Posted 5:02 PM by Gene

Although I do have several dull observations to make. On the streets near where I work one or two IDIOTS have taken to speeding go-carts at 50 MPH. There's only one reason they do it: to get into an accident. Oh, nobody wants to get into an accident, you say. Like hell. They daydream about doing an Evel Knievel and having their buggies soar fifty feet in the air and crash into twenty cars, and then they dust off their clothes and walk away. It would not occur to them life may not be like that. This wanting to cause a catastrophe finds a place in too many mindsets. The drag racer hasn't lived until he inflicts a few deaths -- but see, it's all right (or as he'd spell it, alright) because it won't happen to him. This is but a variation of what that simple-minded cartoonist Bil Keane termed NOT ME!, and it's at the root of why America's in trouble.

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