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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, November 06, 2010

Posted 11:42 PM by Gene

Jonathan Yardley, whom we had not seen for a while even though The Daily Kaplan calls him its book critic, is back with what we suspect is a thoroughly just account of Dubya's "memoirs", summed up by the hed's three words: "Competent, readable and flat." Why should we expect any president to know how to write anymore, let alone how to write memorably? Could His Omnipotence so much as speak without the aid of His Loyal TelePrompTers, dutifully spitting out words that mostly aren't even His? Giants once strode the land who could write and think, but if they're likely in this age they are least likely to be presidents, and their prose shows it.

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