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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, December 09, 2009

Posted 9:07 AM by Gene

RENDELLISM, TWEAKED: TNR runs a piece by two wonks on how Turin and Bilbao "renewed" themselves. Just one problem: two prominent words here are "government" and "Gehry." Both cities needed government spending; both cities relied on tourism. Perhaps both cities have recovered, as the wonks say, and perhaps Turin has something of a post-industrial industrial base, but in the presence of these two big G words we find that hard to believe, especially when this story mentions "outdoor cafes". (Philthydelphia has them too.) We don't know what to do about Detroit, but it seems more than a few people are pointing in the same possibly self-defeating direction.

Let us not forget Fiat was once an acronym.

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