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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, March 03, 2003

Posted 6:33 PM by Gene

I'm disheartened to learn the Boston Herald site is the latest to go the subscription route. To be sure, it doesn't update constantly like its Times-owned counterpart Boston.com (ironically, the Times Company is helping out with this), and it was the Globe that broke the priest-abuse scandal, but I fear if still other papers do this we'll be stuck with just the biggest sites and AP. That said, there are still too many free sites and too many bloggers afoot for subscriptions to work. Information may not be born to be free, but the more it resembles water or electricity, the more it follows the path of least resistance.

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