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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, February 13, 2003

Posted 3:22 PM by Gene

News hacks are in a bind: if they charge for their news, people will avoid their sites; if they don't charge, they lose money. Problem is, the only unqualified success among charging news-based sites is Consumer Reports. The more sites that charge the more people may go to "unofficial" sites. The blogging movement, though but a drop in the news bucket and largely talking to itself, shows the old professional filtering process is slow and cumbersome anyway. And it isn't so much the Internet that has caused people to drop newspapers from their media menu, but the hacks' stale, tired, knee-jerk, unchanging ways. It is simply easier to get the news electronically -- period. "Free" news may be slightly on the wane. It isn't going away.

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