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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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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Posted 9:12 AM by Gene

And in another exercise in nostalgia, we see newsmen are once again blaming the continuing and exceptionally justified decline of the news biz on everything but themselves. Ad revenues down, check; newsprint up, check; too much debt, check -- the only thing missing is the DO-NOT-CALL LAW. Of course it has nothing to do with the PRODUCT, an increasingly hard-to-take concoction whose smell emanates even through the Web sites (which are also holding things down); it clearly has nothing to do with, say, devoting twenty-seven typists to show-biz and five to the Congress. No, so long as the hacks are in denial we too should be in denial -- of our money, for their product.

(Via MediaBistro)

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