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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 11, 2003

Posted 6:25 AM by Gene

Prof was mad enough to post at 5 in the morning because the news hacks are imposing a blackout on anti-terrorist demonstrations in Iraq. We should all get mad. But this kind of blackout confirms just who has the power. Yes Prof, your blogging army has the peashooters -- and the news hacks have the nukes.

P. S. I suspect one reason news hacks are imposing the blackout is that they think our side organized the protests. But what if our side didn't? And does it make these protests unworthy even if our side did? No, you have to be one of the good guys to get a battalion of ENGs into the field. Bloggers have the peashooters; news hacks have the nukes.

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