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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, March 03, 2008

Posted 7:46 PM by Gene

The ad-biz is having a fit of ethics because a couple of keyboard bangers may have caused an agency exec to kill himself. We can't say yes, and we can't say no; it would be a trivial man, as one person puts it here, who'd kill himself because a bloggers' venom. But too often the Web's rage is unchecked, and all that rage feeds on itself. Personal attacks on private citizens are intolerable. But bloggers, like so much of media, are about making the intolerable tolerable.

As for one of the blogs mentioned, we can safely say what millions of visitors say of millions of blogs, with far less justification: our first visit was our last.

(Via MediaBistro)

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