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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, June 22, 2009

Posted 5:04 PM by Gene

The deaths of young protesters in Iran is a heart-wrenching thing, but gruesome videos alone can't bring down the tyrants. The protesters have to stand for something. It appears now all they stand for is that an election was rigged, and a few of their companions horribly lost their lives. We know Iran's various presidential "candidates" stood pretty much united in building nukes. Are the protesters willing to make a clean break from the Holy Stone-Age all-seers and Nukeman? Are they willing to reclaim their great civilization? Or is this just a romantic fling for the young, and a hope for an easier version of Yayaism? How serious they are will determine whether their movement is just another Internet fad. People of conscience everywhere should be on their side -- and in the end, they have to show the courage too.

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