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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, April 15, 2003

Posted 5:10 PM by Gene

I'm shocked! SHOCKED! A "Christian" rock band uses four-letter words and takes Christ's name in vain during an Entertainment Weekly (or EW!) interview. "Christian" music has become just another avenue for no-talents who'd otherwise be playing the Great White circuit to get a contract and exposure; their Christianity is a gimmick, just like the bumps and grinds of the overaged strippers who taught Gypsy Rose. But then ever since the hack Ralph Carmichael created the world of junk Christian pop with its equivocal, secular lyrics and sappy sing-songy melodies ("Youuuuuuuuuuu liiiiiiiiiiiight up myyyyyyy liiiiiiiiiiiiife....") the music has been in a downward spiral. Taking a few lousy records off the Christian bookstores' shelves won't solve the rot at its heart. As for cynics who will say the band did it to get greater exposure, they're getting greater exposure in a lesser market. (Linked on Romenesko; I might not have found it otherwise. Thanks for once, Jim!)

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