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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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Sunday, July 13, 2003

Posted 4:32 PM by Gene

Those who say bloggers will overtake the conventional news biz are whistling in the dark. Bloggers, unlike news suites, go to bed, and take vacations. (Professor InstaPundit is starting to become the Johnny Carson of blogging.) Sometimes they just quit. Even the best of them are inconsistent in how frequently they post. I know of no blogger, moreover, who has international bureaus; claiming to have a blogger connection in Iraq is like saying I have a friend in Poughkeepsie. And trying to predict which blogger will post when is like playing an electronic game of hide and seek, or musical chairs, and too often the prize is a three-week-old post. And there is no reliable index or search engine for bloggers. So for now, and perhaps forever, the power remains with the First-Amendment-defending totalitarians.

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