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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, March 09, 2007

Posted 5:21 PM by Gene

I used to think the USAOKAY!!!!! approach would cure some of the ills of newshackery. After all, few save P-Ulitzer judges want to read 50,000 words on the snail darter. There is something to be said for the pithy. But maybe not too much. When I see a blurb like this on WaPost.com:

● E.J. Dionne Jr.: Who's Hyperpartisan?

I know a pithy answer: NOT ME! Or at least not my side. That's why I won't click on the link. But then too many colyumnists can be read in three words or less, and sometimes zero.

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