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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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Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Posted 6:02 PM by Gene

Buzz TWXster says when media types have blogs but don't answer e-mails, and ordinary people send comments to bloggers who don't answer e-mails, it's interactivity. Sorry, TWXster. I call it shooting over each other's heads. And I say that having a policy that I will never post comments on my site, a policy which I can't fully defend (not that I'll ever worry about people even reading me).

And yes, TWXster, I doubt if any seven-digit media type actually ever answers a plebeian's e-mail, but it sure would be nice -- occasionally.

And TWXster, I confess I like the Times' old typefaces a little better myself -- but who reads newspapers anymore?

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