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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, February 15, 2006

Posted 8:14 AM by Gene

Terry Teachout hugs himself over the Beatles. Granted they were better than average tunesmiths, but their success merged lawyers and marketing and pretentiousness, and the production tricks that seemed so with-it and now are ALL we have in pop music anymore. Terry also forgets that in 1964 there were still many different types of music. Now it's ONLY pop, and its destructive low-IQ sensibility. And whatever is charming about their best songs -- and they are -- is largely wiped out by the fact that we've heard them a trillion times, and will be forced to hear them a trillion more whether we want to or not. The difference between mediocrity then and mediocrity now is that with technology mediocrity is FOREVER.

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