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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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Thursday, September 04, 2008

Posted 8:28 AM by Gene

We are sorry to learn The New York Sun is in danger of folding. We need more news outlets; but the Web explosion has in many ways shrunk our choices; all the little guys have given an increasingly bigger voice to the big guys (and especially the biggest of them all, the ASSPress); the few new outlets are not claiming their audiences. It was a fool's errand to run a new broadsheet in the world's most concentrated and stubborn media market; but the Sun's Web site has shown it can do a creditable job, and we hope at least that part of the outfit can survive, catering to a small but involved readership.

(Via MediaBistro)

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