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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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Friday, October 27, 2006

Posted 9:19 AM by Gene

There's only one way for the newspaper biz to save itself, it won't happen, and it wouldn't work: It must issue a series of high-visibility ads admitting in the humblest terms to the biz' bias, mistakes, bad writing and superiority complex, and offering to immediately cut newsstand and home delivery prices. It won't happen because the biz makes those 25% margins, but more to the point, it won't happen because the hacks could turn this into a labor negotiating ploy, and besides, no one tells the greatest men on the planet what to do. Even if they miraculously agreed the Web has proved you don't have to get nothing for something.

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