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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, May 11, 2009

Posted 8:33 AM by Gene

RUMBLING: Now a professor suggests "replac[ing] life tenure" in the Nine Fingers "with a single, nonrenewable term of 15 or 20 years." Something is broken with the set-it-and-forget-it culture of the Fingers, especially when we have to endure these appointed brainiacs acting as mini-gods. They're not gods, they're justices, and often not very good ones at that.

Meantime E. J. admits that "[t]o pretend that these judicial fights are about anything other than the court's philosophical direction is a form of willful dishonesty", which we will take as definitive from a man very adept at less than the whole truth himself.

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