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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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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Posted 10:47 AM by Gene

I've been reading The Roosevelts: An American Saga, by Peter Collier with David Horowitz. At the front of the book, there's a detailed family tree, showing the connections between the "Oyster Bay Roosevelts" (TR and close kin) and the "Hyde Park Roosvelts" [SIC] (FDR and close kin). The branches were linked by Eleanor Roosevelt, who was TR's niece and FDR's wife.

Anyway, the family tree shows the offspring of Eleanor and FDR. They had five children who survived childhood (and one who didn't). Between them, these five children had 19 different spouses.

So?

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