- For the sin we journalists have sinned before thee,
- Under duress and willingly
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- For the truth we have warped before thee
- Through hardness of the heart
- Through venality of the spirit
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- For the sin we have sinned before thee in passing judgment
- And for the sin we have sinned before thee in the exercise
of power
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- For the prejudices we have nurtured
- For the hatreds we have milked
- For the reputations we have sullied
- For the names we have desecrated
- For the guilt we have presumed
- For the sides we have taken,
- For the sides we have shunned
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- For the truth we have warped before thee
- Hyped before thee, tailored before thee
- Pimped before thee
- Doctored before thee
- For the sake of nothing more than a deadline or a headline
- Or simply for our name's sake
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- For all these
- Forgive us, pardon us, atone for us
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- For the sin we have sinned before thee
- In throwing off the yoke of ethics
- For the sin we have sinned before thee
- Knowingly and through carelessness
- For the sin we have sinned before thee
- through cunning speech
- through scorning with cleverness
- through the bias of the narrowed eye, the haughty eye,
- through entrapment, through gossip mongering
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- For the sin of currying favor, by keeping secrets that
protect the
- powerful,
- And for the sin of causing death, by revealing secrets
that can identify
- targets
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- For the sin we have sinned before thee
- In choosing the single picture over the 1,000 words
- And for the sin we have sinned before thee
- In feasting on the failings of those we choose to vilify
- And in denial of the evils of those with whom we identify
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- For the sin we have sinned before thee
- In the mining and selling of grief
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- For the privacy we trample
- For the mourners we exploit
- For the good names we ruin
- And the good works we ignore
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- For all these,
- Forgive us, pardon us, atone for us
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