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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, February 21, 2011

Posted 11:07 AM by Gene

The reason noble things like getting kids to eat better school lunches may not work is that the way government choreographs them they're a mix of impractical idealism and brutal dogma. We don't want the young eating SALT! NO SALT! NEVER!! So we don't put salt on vegetables, meaning they taste terrible, meaning the kids don't eat vegetables. Common sense would say it should be possible to make healthy foods taste good. This sort of national-nanny stupidity is why we can never trim enough fat from government and why Wisconsin's public-worker unions are on the losing side regardless of the GOP's true plans.

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