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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, July 22, 2009

Posted 9:47 PM by Gene

And lately I've found it harder to run cogent blog posts. Where does one begin with health care? It's a thousand-page amoeba constantly changing shape, and whether it passes or not depends on amorphous forces who aren't lobbying as they are trying to shift stars in the universe. How does one talk intelligently on something with zillions of moving parts? One doesn't, and it is no accident the coverage of this has seemed like dueling lobbyists. At least five or six years ago during Iraq the choices were clear-cut, the fools obvious.

At times like these inadequacy does not begin to describe my self-attitude. I try consoling myself thinking folks will be perplexed or embarrassed by today's hot topics five or ten years hence, no comfort when you're looking at the public life from miles outside the stadium with the caps cemented on your binocular lenses. And there is no advancing in the blog system when the castes have been so rigidly set.

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