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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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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Posted 1:44 PM by Gene

I'm of two minds about this article. Clearly the Web is breeding a new kind of selfishness. (It's certainly creating a new kind of caste system with bloggers.) Yes, with so many people creating what they suppose to be culture through rapidly obsolescing means a large part of it is going down the memory rat hole. And we would be right to fear weakened mass media -- if they did things worth doing. But since when have the likes of RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "discover[ed], nurture[d], and reward[ed] elite talent"? All they're developing is elitist talent, with an aptitude for telling us how inferior we are, and a further aptitude of accreting guano in our minds.

And if blogging's such a scourge why do you have a blog -- and a PODCAST?

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