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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, January 27, 2004

Posted 5:48 PM by Gene

If BusinessWeek is to be believed -- and being a CW rag that helped convince the world the Trump was worth umpteen billions, it often is not -- with their penchant to sue sue sue the geniuses of the music trade have pushed file-swapping underground, to encrypted networks.

I just got my latest copy of the Collectors' Choice Music catalogue, and it's filled with "niche" albums selling for $20 and up, recordings whose contents long ago paid for themselves, a good many of them from Warner Music's Rhino label. Maybe such gouging will pay for the LBO, JUNIOR, but at a heavy cost. You wonder why people file-share?

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