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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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Monday, July 07, 2003

Posted 5:20 PM by Gene

The editor of the sometimes very irritating ArtsJournal.com auditions for BLUNDER rag with a fatuous column in which he approvingly disapprovingly says classical music's no longer the stuff of water-cooler discussion. Neither is the theater, once the mother lode for Hollywood. Neither is radio, which at its peak had a more devoted audience than television. Neither are the movies, except among dumb blind teenagers. Neither are books, except among the airplane-imprisoned crowd that reads Danielle King Clancy. Neither is pop music, except among the get-a-life crowd on the Web. And as Brian "Hair Shirt" Lowry argued in a recent column, neither is most of television. Our total culture's problems are just as great as classical music's, only it has an army of news-hack lackeys to disguise them.

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