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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, August 30, 2009

Posted 5:15 PM by Gene

This is a trap. Either kids get bored reading "masterworks" or they read junk. Both ways they may see reading as less than a pleasure. While perhaps some put too much stock in not boring people a great many masterworks are dull. But no amount of cheerleading can elevate junk, though some may try. In any case reading is once again being put to the service of churning out Dilberts, the last thing we need. The resigned sound of “We just need to preserve book habits among the kids as much as we possibly can” speaks volumes.

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