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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, June 15, 2009

Posted 4:59 PM by Gene

I have not posted today because I simply had nothing to post on. I may post less in the coming weeks; yesterday I lopped nearly a thousand words off my never-to-be-published manuscript, meaning less than a thousand fewer words to be rejected. But still I march on, as I've marched for 25 years, hoping against hope to someday be published, knowing even if I am published I'll get a trifle for all the effort and grief.

I'll say this: blogging has helped me say things more pithily. This would seem preposterous given how many bloggers have won fame with giga-word posts. That I predicted THE 140-CHARACTER FAD's approach means zilch; brevity and jumble go well together. I think I can write, but I am getting tired of writing for no one, and for nothing. Now to see if I can make it pay.

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