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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, October 12, 2006

Posted 1:33 PM by Gene

Since the dot-com mania started we've seen lots of waves of the future. Yahoo! was the wave of the future in search engines. Netscape was the wave of the future in browsers. AOL was the wave of the future in ISPs. Broadcast.com was the wave of the future in media. eBay was the wave of the future in shopping. Priceline was the wave of the future in travel. Nearly all these waves then washed back out to sea, leaving scattered carcasses of hopes and investors.

We suspect this extremely perplexing and annoying YouTube mania is another. Who has time to scour all those videos, no matter how cute? They're like blogs only the vast majority are hyperkinetic dead air. And they won't last: what happened to MP3.com's library? The same in time with all those doggy tricks and glorified magic acts and archives of obscure musicians on G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE's new toy.

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