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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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Thursday, January 27, 2005
Posted
6:57 AM
by Gene
How much good do we do ooohing and aaahing prodigies? Many of them end up nervous wrecks. It is all well and good to praise the prolificity of a 13-year-old, and we can hope he's written good music, but production minus inspiration is mere factory work. We should also remember Red Skelton (creator of G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER's mascot, FREDDIE THE FREELOADER) was allegedly a prolific composer too.
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