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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, January 07, 2005

Posted 5:41 PM by Gene

PINCH, if you REALLY want to turn the Web over to "PSEUDO-NEWS," to "partisanship, gossip, propaganda, vaudeville masquerading as news," and force people to read only a handful of Web sites, and maybe cause the Internet as an information source to shrivel up, by all means, charge for yours -- and CHARGE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. (Though we must admit you folks have done pretty well on the partisanship and propaganda angles -- and JAYSON and HOWELL could have starred in VAUDEVILLE.)

I would further remind you of what happened to the British paper that shares your name when it tried subscriptions internationally. To use show-biz terminology, it laid an egg.

And a big SHUT-UP to you, Gordon Crovitz. If you're so gung-ho about subscriptions why did Dow Jones buy Marketwatch? To waste more of your shareholders' capital?

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