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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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Sunday, April 10, 2005

Posted 4:21 PM by Gene

Terry Teachout wrote a sad book review for the April Commentary about the demise of the classical music biz. He blames it in part on orchestras unwilling to play new music. The problem is (and as Mr. Teachout himself says) the new stuff was never up to the old. Why play third-rate new music when you have first-rate old music? So the concert hall became a mausoleum. Classical music will never completely die out; there'll always be a guilt feeling among our superiors for endorsing mediocrity, or worse; but is a culture worth saving that has no good serious music?

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