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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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Monday, February 22, 2010

Posted 7:21 PM by Gene

Stories like this make us wonder whether sane people will be ashamed to have talked of such stories three months hence. What tries our sanity is the notion we MUST pay minutest attention to THE GAMES and their trivia when three months hence we will not have the foggiest idea who the participants were, and for some of us where they took place. An age with excellence in culture would not have reason to talk to itself like this; it would have all the distractions it needed, and far more excellence than even the most stalwart hack can will from THE GAMES.

And three months hence the link will be gone, a fitting eulogy.

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