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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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Monday, February 20, 2006

Posted 11:14 AM by Gene

In light of the Cretins of Mountain View's latest technological marvel, and in pondering three recent articles on blogging's worth (or lack thereof), I have taken a few days off from typing snappy rejoinders to news stories. I am tired of writing for nobody, and certainly not for money; and what is worse, I'm wasting my time at it (even though I'm filling in time I'd otherwise spend twiddling my thumbs), and all of this keyboard pulverizing is like radio waves blasted into space, never to be picked up again. I suppose I shall resume tomorrow, but the futility and ephemerality of blogging hang over me more than ever, and as I've said before, if I could make money writing, and writing for hard copy, I'd stop this glorified diary-making in the proverbial New York minute.

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