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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, March 05, 2008
Posted
6:02 PM
by Gene
Speaking of, the Paper of Re-CORD, having just sold us an exceptionally poignant and well-written account of ghetto life, now sells us something else:As Yahoo flails around for an anything-but-Microsoft plan, here is a crazy, but maybe not too crazy, idea: Merge AOL, Myspace and Yahoo....Obviously somebody's hankering for the golden age of dot-com, or $750 a share, or heck, $90 a share -- or maybe someone's saying, hey, if we can sell books like that we can sell ANYTHING.
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