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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 17, 2009

Posted 8:51 AM by Gene

A high new-media mucky-muck says things about newspapers and their Web sites we've said before, only we aren't noticed because we're not a high mucky-muck. One of high mucky-muck's suggestions has been more Web sites. Please! We already scour the Internet fruitlessly; adding thousands of sites merely adds hay to the haystack hiding the needles. We know good writing is out there, someplace -- but the preposterous size and obsessive growth of the Web bury it, and no technology however sexy will help find it. Indeed preposterous size and obsessive growth can only mean more of the rampant mediocrity high mucky-muck whines about. We lose for winning any way.

(Via the usual Romy)

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