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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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Saturday, November 01, 2003

Posted 11:02 AM by Gene

That last post and Ben's review of the immortal genius Mr. Sondheim's latest opus give a clue as to why our creative culture's a spent force: it can't and won't do anything right when it's so self-conscious. I noted earlier that Leonard Bernstein was too me-centered to be an enduringly great composer, and his first-class music writing virtually ended when he became the world's conductor (in 1958, the year after West Side Story). And face it, a good many masterworks sprang up almost by accident. When everyone's looking for genius in every nook and cranny -- and too often find it -- posterity gains nothing. And we are so hyperaware of the slightest offense art can do to this aggrieved race or that aggrieved ethnic group, the chance of the happy cultural accident become smaller still. Our age will not survive on rap and blogs, except for derision.

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