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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, October 28, 2005

Posted 8:53 AM by Gene

The PROFEESSOR got in a snit last night because Little Malcolm issued a towering (registration-required) cover screed about blogs, calling G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE and Yahoo! abettors of libel. (Greed, yes.) We admit sometimes the Web resembles the box after Pandora opened it. Heck even one of the BLOGGERS OF THE MILLENNIUM admits it can do harm. Odd too because Malc always boasts how well his SITE is doing. That said, it is best to presume when reading blogs that everyone has a motive, and only a fool would glean for truth by gleaning blogs. As for the notion the big three of blogging should shut down defamatory blogs, let's see them try it. They're popular enough as is.

It behooves bloggers to be outspoken. But it also behooves them to be careful. These two traits need not be mutually exclusive. (I will never comment on a private person, something it might behoove other bloggers to do.)

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