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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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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Posted 11:13 AM by Gene

More @#$%&* ARTSJOURNAL.COM: We'll take Terry Teachout's word that Alex Ross is an intelligent writer, but he writes for The New Yorker, and here he indulges himself in 4,981 words. Isn't it a little late in the day to whine how recording "ruined" music? First off, we all know great works old and newer (we can't say "new") thanks to recordings. Second, who really wants to closet himself in a concert hall or jazz club anymore, with all the attendant inconvenience and expense? Third, why should we whine about recording when there's so little worth recording, for reasons that may not have to do with technology?

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