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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, January 26, 2007

Posted 8:38 PM by Gene

Another brilliant insider (who is this Lefsetz?) says we're living in a GOLDEN AGE of "music" (I still say it's DOUBLE MEGA-PLATINUM at LEAST) but even HE, brilliant, savvy insider, doesn't have A CLUE how to sell all this burgeoning genius. Maybe -- and here is where the Lefsetzes will hit a wall, or bang their heads on it -- this "music" CAN'T SELL.

The "merger" of EMI's U. S. pop operations says there are STILL too many needless marques as it is. And who buys music by the brand name these days? There used to be a reason. Not anymore. But then there's no reason to buy music anymore.

(Link via PaidContent.org, which can also be clueless on occasion)

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