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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, July 06, 2006

Posted 8:57 AM by Gene

Cheapie Marketwatch has become the latest big site to suddenly and unnecessarily change itself (principally we suspect to get rid of the Wall Street Journals freebies), and while it is relatively tame and appears not to have been done for the glory of CLEARTYPE, we still don’t like these things. Who in his right mind thinks STALE.COM is better looking or easier to read now?

This whole business reminds us of the compulsion in the allegedly golden age of television for shows to change their theme music when they ran into ratings trouble (i.e., The Patty Duke Show). It didn't work then, and it may not work now.

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