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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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Thursday, December 18, 2003

Posted 7:12 PM by Gene

I have often made fun of the bloggers for going on and on and on and on and on for no reason, for writing just to show off their bona fides and warmed-over punditry. Well, here's a blogger who goes on and on and on and on and on, and whose nearly every word is worth reading: Terry "Unpronounceable" Teachout. I've criticized him before for his inconsistency: his Commentary rave of the IMMORTAL Stephen Sondheim, for instance; but on his blog he writes with passion and zeal and at best a truly unconventional wisdom. He finishes before his fellow bloggers have even started. If only there were more such the medium's future -- and its excellence -- would be unquestioned.

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