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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, March 22, 2010

Posted 10:00 AM by Gene

A further problem with deciphering the news is that the increasingly rare insights come in places you wouldn't expect to turn because they're so encrusted with politics, and so you never turn to them. It further helps that the leading Web sites do all in their power to obscure them with tiresome scrolling and user-friendly layouts. We would hardly expect this from a liberal Web site and are annoyed we had to find it through NRO, but the fact that such an article exists says maybe HISTORY won't be all it's cracked up to be.

And no she doesn't offer a solution -- but that makes one wonder whether there is a solution, HISTORY notwithstanding.

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