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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, January 05, 2007

Posted 11:36 AM by Gene

Aside from shifting the print date (because millions of readers wanted it, possibly including those who had their subscriptions canceled) how is the man who shares a last name with the manager of the '62 Mets changing PEOPLE NEWSRAG? WELL, he's starting a "regular history section", perhaps to monetize his archives, plus an environmental section (I guess that means a global warming lecture every week), plus a "law section" written by one Reynolds Holding (does that sound like a company name?), plus he's launching something that sounds suspiciously like Peter Jennings's "Person of the Week" stories -- plus he's going to uglify the Web site! (But why on Monday?)

The only question left is, when do enough readers quit that JonBoy overtakes him in circulation?

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