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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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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Posted 8:52 AM by Gene

We really hate wasting our time on trivia like this, but the combination of closed-circuit cameras and the Web is making our society a little like 1984, where every indefensible action is eligible for the death penalty. But who would have known that the modern security state would be run not from the top down by Goldsteins, but from the bottom up by angry mobs? One wonders if it's at the root of people throwing out any old candidates for public office for no known reason. Whatever the source of indignation CCTV and The Web have made the world an angrier place, and probably not a safer one.

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