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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1. Post copy and backgrounds of almost identical colors (i.e., light-green copy on a moderate-green background);
2. Use no breaks, so the reader must wade through endless paragraphs;
3. Use narrow columns so you have to scroll all the way down the page to complete the blogger's thought;
4. Use double-spaced lines that take up the width of the browser window, so the reader has to scroll and scroll and scroll;
5. Clutter up their pages with boxes, insets, photos, emoticons, etc. etc.
6. Link to other sites (usually blogs) with lots of photos, thereby requiring a long wait, and if the reader scrolls too soon the page goes herky-jerky and all over the place;
7. Use invisible scroll bars, so you have to guess how to scroll down the page.
I'm sure there are more, but these are the first that come to mind.