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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, June 28, 2010

Posted 5:11 PM by Gene

Sen. Byrd occasions an understandable yearning for the days when giants ruled the Senate. The problem is the Websters' and Clays' and Calhouns' eloquent orating couldn't stop the Civil War. It is no accident that the decades since have seen pompous blowhards like the fictional Sen. Claghorn or asset-amassing villains like Sen. Clark or eunuchs played by Victor Moore. Not that the Senator struck us as a great orator, unless you mistake constantly shaking the head and thrusting up a finger and bellowing of Cicero to an empty gallery as great oratory. We may wonder if West Virginia may have been better off without him. To be sure it is a one-trick state, and that a dirty and dangerous one; but when a Senator gets to plaster his name on nearly every building in sight it may tell the locals there isn't much they can do. We can forgive the Senator his proud membership in the KKK; what we can't forgive is our elected officials always making mistakes, and immortalizing themselves in the name of some mythical idea of history.

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