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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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Thursday, March 03, 2011

Posted 5:17 PM by Gene

We heard of this story from one of those Web sites that likes to be cute about such things while channeling Frank Rich on conservatives (DailyBeastVultureNewser, you know). This sort of transgressive malarkey goes hand in hand with living tattoo museums, just as PC does with huge business skools. Kolejes stand for little more than self-preservation, and they're part of the EDS 'n' MEDS disaster because when students (and especially their parents) have a reason not to attend -- and the Web and the news give them increasingly good ones -- there goes their boondoggling. Too many of society's institutions deserve a comeuppance, which is why the RICH-ONLY ECONOMIC BOOM exasperates us; it gives the most corrupt of them a second wind, more like a second hundredth; but they're still corrupt, and an energized public can still make them fall.

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