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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, January 08, 2007

Posted 8:07 AM by Gene

PEOPLE NEWSRAG is trying to be "unconventional." It cannot be. You don't get far in the media biz being unconventional. Certainly you can't get far in a company that's had the fear of Luce and has lately fired lots of folks by being unconventional. We can imagine how many times Richard "Can Anyone Here Edit This Magazine?" Stengel has uttered the moral equivalent of "You're absolutely right, sir!" and "Whatever the boss thinks, I think." We can also understand why Josh "ER" Tyrangiel is "highly regarded"; he has that superior-pleasin' mix of Ivy League-educated philistinism and synergy, seasoned with a dose of attitude. These two think by improvising some allegedly well-written essays and tons of HIP show-biz and techie junk among sheets of ever-skinnier paper they'll turbocharge a 1923 jalopy; but the WaPosties' rag already has the zeitgeist down pat, and we suspect in five years there'll be new geniuses -- if PEOPLE NEWSRAG lasts that long.

(Via MediaBistro)

P. S. We see the rag has finally redone its Web site. This is a revolution?

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