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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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Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Posted 11:45 AM by Gene

Speaking of clowns, I learned from the Professor (not you, sir) that ANDY S. is putting his blog "on hiatus." What that really means is anyone's guess -- he says "nine months" -- but what it may mean is that, for all the millions of column inches devoted to them, blogs MAY NOT CURE CANCER, and that unlike news organizations they're at the whim of a single person, and when the single person is a FAMOUS JERNALIST a blog can detract from other pursuits -- like making money (though it appears THE BLOGGERS OF THE MILLENNIUM have found a way AROUND that). Possibly also ANDY may have tired of all the invective blasting the melodrama and hubris and flipflopping he's displayed much too much lately, and which surely has cost him a lot of readers.

The one good thing: in time maybe people will forget ANDY S., just as it is possible to forget bloggers like YOURS TRULY who type for nothing (in several ways).

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