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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, September 28, 2003

Posted 1:53 PM by Gene

Buzz is in a tiz because some "has-been" (a handy term when you disagree with somebody) says blogs are essentially onanistic. The has-been's right. Who's reading my blog? Who reads blogs period? Most are worthless public diaries (no, I'm not interested in your sex life), and the few that aren't work up a froth for the publicity. And yes, the highest end of the bloggers are looking for work in the news biz. I'd love to get a column out of this blog myself (fat chance). And once the bloggers get their six-digit salaries, out go the blogs. We already saw that with the ESPN sports phreak who became a Jimmy Kimmel writer. Blogging will not die in two years -- it's no fad -- but it is dependent upon the attentions of news hacks in ways many practitioners don't want to admit.

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