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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Thursday, April 28, 2005

Posted 3:13 PM by Gene

Another ARTSJOURNAL LINK-NUISANCE: When a writer takes to the CEEEEEEEEEEEBEEEEEEEEEE-uhCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE site to gush how many brilliant and witty literary bloggers there are, this means they're all cutely verbose, willing to like anything, engage in petty internecine squabbles that mean nothing outside the vacuum-packed world of LITERAHTEEYURE, and are proud to be logrolling. (You never know when they might come in handy writing a COVER BLURB.) In other words, they're GAWKER with PRETENSIONS. I'd love to find a good all around blog about books, but I'm not growing any younger, and having travelled endless cul-de-sacs on the Web I'm not anxious to find a thousand more.

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