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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, September 18, 2006

Posted 5:17 PM by Gene

Which is one reason the continuing battle in LALALAND gets on my nerves. This courageous editor is not trying to save jobs from the bean counters; he wants to preserve his power. How a mighty newspaper with 1,000 scribblers is necessarily more powerful than a mighty newspaper with 800 scribblers is beyond us. But perhaps in the back of his head he recognizes the growing anger at the business, and his only answer is an equal obstinance, a refusal to listen to your critics, a belief you are somehow willed by your own inner god to do your work. That this battle is at least as political as it is based on alleged principle is why we have no sympathy for this noble cause; the news-hack high-and-mighty is even more offensive than their naked slanting. Thus we (barely) side with the bean counters, even though their ultimate goal is to produce a LOW-IQ BIRDCAGE LINER of a paper. But that may not be much worse than most readers have now.

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