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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, May 22, 2005

Posted 5:55 PM by Gene

These last several days I've immersed my self in period-instrument recordings of Mozart's symphonies. Does anyone realize he wrote his first at age eight? That sort of thing is unthinkable now, which is why our culture's so great. The next time some ad-blurb copywriter describes a [C]RAPPER as a GENIUS I'd like to scream this fact into his one ear and out his other, which it where it always goes.

A note about pricing and the RECORDED-MUSIC MAFIA: I got a Canadian pressing of this eleven-disc set from an Amazon.com merchant for about $29.00, including shipping. The standard version has different cover art and sells for at least thirty dollars more. How can people takes these clowns seriously -- and why should ANYONE pay fifteen bucks for a music CD?

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