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, January 08, 2006
Posted
9:51 AM
by Gene
So while the Kaiser Chiefs regroup, consider these tangy regional voices: the Futureheads, Field Music and Maximo Park from Tyne & Wear in the northeast; British Sea Power from Cumbria; Sons & Daughters and Arab Strap from Scotland; Arctic Monkeys and the Harrisons from Yorkshire; the Zutons, Little Barrie and the Longcut from Manchester and Liverpool in the northwest.
And: Kasabian, the Editors and the Young Knives from the Midlands; the Go! Team from Brighton on the south coast; and Bloc Party, Art Brut, the Subways, Hard-Fi and the Magic Numbers keeping London on the map — the capital's most recent champions, the Libertines, having split into the chaotic Babyshambles (Pete Doherty's lamentable drug history offering little hope for a substantial future) and the as-yet-unheard Dirty Pretty Things (the much steadier Carl Barat's new venture, which was recording in L.A. during December)....
The other current boom is in solo artists/singer-songwriters. The more established names are distinctly unhip, scoffed at by Brit critics as purveyors of "girlfriend music": Damien Rice, Dido, Katie Melua, Jem. James Blunt, the U.K.'s top-selling artist in 2005, now racing up the Billboard chart, has definitely joined that list, while craggy David Gray, much praised for his latest, "Life in Slow Motion," is a rare escapee from uncoolth [SIC]....
Debuts from romantic Richard Hawley, roughneck Malcolm Middleton, jazzy Corinne Bailey Rae and the more leathery KT Tunstall will reward repeated listenings, as will Beth Orton's as-yet-untitled comeback (out in February, produced by Sonic Youth's Jim O'Rourke in New York). Tom Vek's songs buzz with a raw garage rock energy, driven along by subtle electronic touches and a backbone of rigid, angular funk.
And maybe, after the Brit/Sri Lankan M.I.A.'s success with "Arular," it might be worth mentioning the hip-hop home team....
The Editors. Maybe they should have a gig at A CERTAIN TRIB PAPER.
