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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, December 10, 2007

Posted 6:56 PM by Gene

How many people will stop reading a blogger when he says something really stupid? When the Paper of Re-CORD gets caught with a Jayson, or TNR with its fool Pvt., they can slough them off institutionally as bad apples; they have eons' of rep. But when a B. S. DEFENDER defends B. S. or a SAM LITTLE spots a SAM attack or a HUGH!!!!! calls himself a little guy, he can't excuse his stupidity on lax oversight; no, a blogger is his rep, and he has only himself to blame. But blame themselves they almost never will; somehow being a SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGER instantly affords him enormous insight and a defense from critics. And bloggers -- the megalomaniacs among them especially -- should be held, we think, to a higher standard than news hacks not only because of their Tarzanian chest pounding but because one suspects they make even more mistakes than the hacks, who at least have editors.

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