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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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Friday, May 28, 2004

Posted 11:03 AM by Gene

STERNO is mad because THE PAPER OF RECORD self-interestedly tried to paint bloggers as idiots, and further tried to put the kibosh on the medium as dying. Any mode of communication will have its fruitcakes (i.e., newspapering?), but blogging is definitely not the flavor of the month. On the other hand, there is no denying that for most bloggers (yes, most), it's a fad they can't keep up with, and they just flat out can't WRITE, and after one or two stumbling posts about a non-existent personal life they fade away. And most of blogging IS personal. Very few have the stamina to keep it up day after day after day (and I don't flatter myself in writing this). And a troublesomely few pundits have any real power, which is why STERNO can afford to get mad.

This said, bloggers can scarcely do worse than THE PAPER OF RECORD has done lately, and surely no worse than CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES when they extrude PIECES OF CRAP like THIS.

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