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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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Friday, February 05, 2010

Posted 6:03 PM by Gene

I'm thinking lately there haven't been too many PC provocations of Christians (i.e., Piss Christ). Perhaps there are so many now we don't notice. But one thing, and one thing only, now renders them impotent: Islam. We may safely assume anyone who plays that "transgressive" game curls into the fetal position just thinking of being shot by a Muslim MILITANT for making fun of his faith. Not only does Islam render such provocations moot, it renders them hypocritical. There will be more such provocations, but thanks to an emboldened people such jokes are self-neutering.

Indeed I go one step further: Any culture maven who proclaims he "pushes the envelope" pretty well has his folded, sealed and sent down the nearest coal mine -- thanks to that unmentionable religion.

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