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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, December 16, 2009

Posted 2:32 PM by Gene

Romy must link to some typist at Meteorite, MediaBlight, whatever, who says Nick Dorken's changed the universe, he gets zillions of page hits, blahblahblah. We forget that in many ways the Web is as opaque as seemingly transparent; it cannot reveal what people choose not to. It is also a funhouse mirror; just because it speaks largely in numbers doesn't mean the numbers are real. One thing it hasn't revealed is whether Nick and Huff 'n' Puff are making money. Oh they ARE, say the hypists, who further say we must take them at their word, just like TGSM's wife. And this typist is as BREATHLESS about how GAWKER'S DESTROYED PRIVATE LIFE!!!!!!!!! as his fellow hacks were about TGSM before the Cadillac. If we found out how much money they make it could stop the typists from hyperventilating. But because the Web has dark spots we won't. And it is second nature for hacks to distort the truth even when it confronts them in the dark alleys of their minds.

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