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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, November 16, 2003

Posted 9:39 AM by Gene

PROF is sad that MP3.com is shutting its doors. It's a long story -- the site was involved in the stealing of intellectual property rights and lost a suit to the RIAA, after which the incompetents at Vivendi bought it out, just like Bertelsmann with the worthless Napster. What's most interesting is that CNET, the new owner, is deleting all of MP3.com's files. It might be merely a way of avoiding more legal trouble; then again, it's trashing a lot of "music" (from "independent artists"), and that doesn't say much for its worth.

And there, in a nutshell, is a problem with the Web: whether through blogging or "music" making or chatting, its audience talks largely to itself.

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