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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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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Posted 2:31 PM by Gene

Romy is ON CALL today! Why? Because The Paper of Re-cord has run a head-scratching piece about why KnightRidder had to disappear. How could such a great newspaper company, with 85 P-ULITZERS and possibly hundreds of thousands of other awards, just -- vanish? Well, as is typical with stories like this, it's always somebody else's fault: the greedy shareholders, shortsighted advertisers, beancounters from Podunk. It's never, EVER the fault of the people who actually make the product. They won 85 P-ULITZERS, didn't they?

SO WHAT?

P. S.

While Mr. Sherman’s firm has been shedding some of its newspaper stocks, largely at the direction of dissatisfied clients, about 10 percent of his portfolio remains invested in newspapers. (As of June 30 his firm owned 13 percent of the common stock of The New York Times Company.)

PIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNCH!!!!!

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