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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, July 21, 2007

Posted 9:12 AM by Gene

As we will ultimately find out, the difference between Web news sites and newsrags is that the passage of time more easily hides the Web's embarrassments. Nonetheless the unending electronic triviamania (especially as exemplified in this exasperating week) will someday be every bit as cringe provoking as, say, going back in ZEITGEIST's archives and finding the threat of global cooling, or Hitler's diaries, or the Koran down the toilet, or going back in PEOPLE NEWSRAG's vault and finding all the hundreds of PEOPLE NEWSRAG 100 lists, or the return of God in His son Jimmah, or how they liked Ike, or how backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. And the day will come sooner, as the Web indulges in so much more of it.

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