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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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Saturday, May 08, 2010

Posted 12:41 PM by Gene

Speaking of technology, part of me resents having to buy a new computer. The simple tasks I ask of it should require a simple box; but simple tasks require arduous feats of code-writing strength, and the technology grows ever more demanding and musclebound, and keeping up with the Joneses you fall behind. Steve's Tablet From On High will become as musclebound as anything, however simple It putatively is to use, because It has to connect to so many things, and be used in so many conflicting ways, that the Acolytes will inevitably demand bigger and better Tablets, and the Lord will always oblige, as His Tithes will always increase. Why can't someone devise a computing way that strips out all the excess, all the energy-wasting complexity, and above all the inevitability of a big fat push-button mistake lying just behind every corner?

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