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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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Monday, August 09, 2004

Posted 8:26 AM by Gene

Is it too much to hope the big-name bloggers are becoming figures of fun? They evidence the same hilarious faults as the news hacks they're always knocking: superficiality and monomania. The former they can blame on the medium -- an unscrolled monitor reveals 400 or 500 words, about half a newspaper column, and unless you were born in an auto plant you can't curl up in bed with a monitor -- but as to the latter they could (and should) lay much of the blame on themselves, and given their resemblances to news hacks I would not turn my face blue waiting for that.

And further like news hacks, the big-namers are immortal. Who will preserve their immortality if they shuffle off this mortal coil? Will they get together a collection? Will they pray for the Wayback Machine their souls to save? Will anyone remember their slightest digital utterance after they meet their makers?

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