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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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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Posted 2:39 PM by Gene

Elsewhere in Stale.com, another typist goes into mourning over a comedian's self-cancellation of his Web video series. When a typist uses words like "classic" it smacks of desperation; when he admits "most blogs have an audience in the single digits[, a]nd most video blogs, unless made by an attractive woman, have a likely audience of one" he confesses to his "classic"'s ephemerality. (He hammers home the last e-nail in the coffin with "fleeting" in the last graf.) How many watched this comic? And how many could remember his routines? And how many, on second thought, would call them "classics"? There's too much of the you-had-to-be-there in our culture; that it all but disposes itself assures that it leaves behind not only nothing of value, but for all practical purposes nothing.

(Via Slashdot, where they're mildly upset too)

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