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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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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Posted 11:02 AM by Gene

But in fairness he does link to a story (albeit in his kind of Web site) about the style changes at Moo -- that other Washington paper. We understand why the knee-jerk con-SER-va-tive may be upset; there is a soundness to that old NR truism that any organization not expressly right-wing will turn left over time. And God knows there are enough people in the press who want to say "Hi mom!" to their fellow newsies. But maybe this former WaPost typist would not have had to do these things if his bosses hadn't engaged in certain self-parodies in the first place.

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