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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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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Posted 4:14 PM by Gene

Why was I almost rooting against Tom Watson at the Open today? Certainly not him; the man all but invented the terms "gentleman" and "sportsmanship". Perhaps because I sensed in its default mode The Media-Industrial Complex roots for The Golfing Machine; but it broke down and we needed a consolation prize, and Tom was certainly it. But something happened: THE PROFIT CENTER and MOST TRUSTED happened, and I foresaw a flood of bad puns, and the fake hearty congratulations from boomer editors congratulating their late middle age -- hate to repeat myself, the whole sleazy Our Town routine, PGA edition. I'm sure Stewart Cink got a deafening round of lukewarm applause for being younger than Tom. But we've come to a pretty pass when we even feel slightly compelled to harbor bad feelings towards as truly a decent man as Tom Watson -- and it isn't his fault.

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