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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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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Posted 12:04 PM by Gene

It is too much to expect from a medium that's given us viruses, spyware, adware, dating services and porn that bloggers would ever be scrupulous about not plagiarizing. Laughable though it sounds perhaps bloggers should subscribe to a code of ethics that explicitly offers guidelines for quoting for others -- at the very minimum putting the quoted material in italics (or, as Jim Berkowitz does, highlighting it) and including either an integrated link or a link in the post; and always giving credit where cutting and pasting in full (something we try to avoid thanks to copyright concerns). Nor is it too much to expect other bloggers to make plagiarists persona non grata. There's already enough copying and groupthink in blogging.

P. S. As we have a bad habit of putting people's remarks in CAPS and BOLDFACE and adding rows of EXCLAMATION POINTS when they throw verbal tantrums we will from now on acknowledge our own part in the tirades with an "(Emphasis added)."

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