Eugene David
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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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Friday, January 31, 2003

Posted 12:54 PM by Gene

I know bloggers like to present themselves as members of a fierce guild of unwavering truthseekers with an unswayable devotion to intellectual independence, but how many of their stories and their links come from the big boys? And their opinions?

And how independent are they, anyway? Without slighting their slants (usually well-considered), Mickey writes for Bill, Professor InstaPundit writes for Bill, Rupert and Little Jeffrey, Andy S. writes for Rupert and King Richard, and he once wrote for Howell. This is independence? These are the Davids fighting Goliath? With all their Goliath David can't stand a chance.

Mind you, I'd like the dough too, and am not so much an ingrate as to antagonize my patrons. But I wouldn't put a false face of disinterestedness over it.

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