Eugene David
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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, January 11, 2004

Posted 5:50 PM by Gene

No Newhouse, not all bloggers are "citizens." A few are celebrities -- like you and the Professor and Andy S. and little and Vir-GIN-ia and Mick and the Conspiracy and Mr. Stardate and The Scenarist and Mr. Bleat and....You wouldn't be blogging if you were indistinguishable from me, or some teenage airhead fantasizing a sex life around a would-be boyfriend. I submit someone who gets 100 million hits an hour is a much a citizen as a movie star is a citizen -- a citizen of a parallel planet. Further you heap scorn on one of those clueless print-media types for "wasting our time," oblivious to your own two- or three-thousand-word masterpieces. Please Buzz, you want to make a zillion doing a blog. Cut the comedy.

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