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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Gawker.com's Jessica Coen complained: "It's funny how you spend your whole damn day trying to register for the Post's online edition - after all, you don't put this much effort into far more significant activities, like toilet training your cat. Nevertheless, the Post is your kitty litter of choice..."
Cybergossip Matt Drudge - whose drudgereport.com is perhaps the single biggest driver of Internet traffic to news sites - had even considered delinking Post features.
"I have more respect for my readers than to ask them their phone number, home address and how much they make - especially in this age of identity theft and database hacking," Drudge told me.
We shall ignore that Gawker's contents often resemble used kitty litter, or that WALTER "SPYWARE" WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is perhaps the single biggest driver of downloads for anti-spyware software, but DA NOOZ must make its point. Yes, we registered for DA POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! too. Had we known...but it beat toilet-training a cat -- or removing spyware.