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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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Friday, September 09, 2005

Posted 5:35 PM by Gene

We are in a pretty bind when we must judge our cultural giants by their peccadilloes. The era of ROCK GENIUS brought this on as most of its HEROES were ALL peccadilloes. We therefore confess to be confused and slightly dismayed to learn that in his teens Bix Beiderbecke, Satch's alter ego on the cornet, "molested a five-year-old girl", and his anguish over the event may have been behind the self-loathing and supreme alcoholism that killed him at 28. We can forgive Bix, but we must also wonder if Satch, who no doubt had his own cringe-producing moments away from the spotlight, would ever have done this.

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