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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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Saturday, August 08, 2009

Posted 9:29 PM by Gene

PILLHEAD's Accent has pointed us to this article on Europe's "demographic time bomb". We can see where a CW rag like Zeitgeist would play down the threat; we can see how far-right politicians would play it up. The dangers are real: Europe is morally flabby at best, and we should not underestimate the ability of the same continent that got the world into two wars to live down to its lack of potential. We just wish these things weren't foretold by the likes of PILLHEAD's Accent, which is why we don't take them fully seriously.

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