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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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Friday, July 10, 2009

Posted 8:14 AM by Gene

After having to encounter an especially excruciating front-page ad in today's local Metro I consoled myself to think it may soon fold. The publisher denies it; but there's been nothing of the annoying hawkers at the subway station this week and no piles of the toilet paper in view. A bad (or good) sign: I did see a vagrant trundling off with a sheaf for his bedding. A free "newspaper" as bedding -- that's all Metro is (and soon, I hope, to be was) good for.

And it's not just our Metro; I suspect in five years most free dailies will be poof. The beauty part is they may have weaned enough people off pay papers to permanently weaken them. Anything to debilitate a strong press. (PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!)

P. S. at 2:50 p. m. The ad ran on the front page of all three of the spun off Metros. Here's hoping they all fold!

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