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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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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Posted 5:05 PM by Gene

Much as we hate to talk about that amoral preening cowardly maniacal insect we must ask, which is worse: it exposing diplomats as duplicitous, or diplomats being duplicitous unexposed? Yes, it could do damage in its natural state as a slug dancing on a PC, but diplomats can do their damage with their finely-honed weasel words. That most of what has come out of this REVELATION is CW or "obvious" suggests little of what they say is worth secreting, and that they may have as little sense as this thing from under a rock that unsecreted them.

That it deserves some sort of punishment speaks for itself. (Whether it can be punished is another matter.) But let us not dignify the crawler by screaming bloody outrage. In one of his few displays of wisdom Bill Kristol had the thing right: "never complain, never explain." We did that before.

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