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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, August 26, 2009

Posted 8:11 AM by Gene

Ted Kennedy could have been a great leader. He had the dynamism, the zeal, and sometimes the hints of that great Kennedy eloquence. But Kennedy, like Nixon, was deeply flawed. With Tricky Dick it was his overarching paranoia; with Teddy it was the belief that his name was an entitlement. He was, like his father, above the law. Part of it also was the awful burden of two assassinations, but he had it in him to fight back, to overcome it. But the ease of being a Kennedy wouldn't permit it. That the state press will ignore en masse THE ACCIDENT does not negate its centrality to Teddy's tragedy. But even if it had not happened, would he have been a great president? The train wreck with Roger Mudd suggests a mental muddle. The irony is as he died there was a leader in the essentials just like him -- and we are now seeing the rotten fruits of a superliberal presidency. But the essentials were there, which makes the story of Ted Kennedy that much more dismaying for its wasted promise.

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