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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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Thursday, September 03, 2009

Posted 6:29 PM by Gene

And our jerry-built system of news is so inefficient that we can only learn of worthy pieces second- or third-hand. Thus one of EM's typists alerted us to this true blossom of scholarship from Prof. Krugman, a man not often known for humility or sense. We know nothing of economics but this article says in so many words the whizzes of numbers failed because they were too prone to rigid ideology of one kind or another, and their ideology doomed us to what people refuse to call a depression, and it is likely even now they're thoroughly incompetent in solving the problem -- and this, in the end, must be as good an explanation as any.

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