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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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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Posted 6:15 AM by Gene

Sometimes we are mind-bendingly overburdened with information. Most of the information, we know, is valueless or ephemeral, but with more and more Web sites providing more and more information, and with more and more of that information sheer trivia, it becomes a greater chore to keep up with it. This press release is a prize example. Did the ASSPress really have to take a political poll about Halloween? How vital is a demographic breakdown of candy-giving? Does the world really need to know some people have qualms about their children's safety receiving it? We seek a beachhead of knowledge and drown in mere dubious facts, and even after we've died of information overload public disservices like the ASSPress pour more of them over our carcasses.

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