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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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Saturday, October 04, 2003

Posted 6:02 PM by Gene

Here's why most of the free dishrags -- er, newspapers will fail: they're indistinguishable from the (hold your nose) alternative weeklies whose graffiti-enhanced boxes pockmark our cities (in several senses) and whose contents are frequently strewn all over streets, or mixed with a bagman's belongings. They're also so easy a read you can finish them in five seconds. But the beauty part is they drag down regular newspapers too: people figure, if this is all we can expect from a newspaper, why should we pay for one? And they won't attract the YOUNG audience as most are semi-literate at best anyway. But if the freebies are what it takes to put the millionaire pundits and ad-blurb copywriters and high-mucky-muck vacuum-sealed editorialists out to pasture, I say, bring them on!

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