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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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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Posted 5:16 PM by Gene

Daniel Gross is the sort of hack whose writing knows more than he does. That said he's probably pratfalled into a truth when he says CDs will survive. There is no reason for the people who go for disposable bansheeing and the bigoted truths of [C]RAP to buy them; they have their iPods. But those of us who collect, and moreover, those of us who want a superior sound experience, are sticking with it. What is more, many, many albums are available for much less than $10 -- and not just cutouts or rackjobber's stuff. Look through Amazon.com, or Berkshire Record Outlet if you're a classical fan. The latest adenoidal attitudinal screech deserves downloads. Horowitz and Toscanini and Heifetz and Bernstein, and Satch and the Duke and the Count, and Johnny Cash and Hank Williams and Buddy Holly and Ray Charles and the Supremes, deserve only the immortality that the CD alone can promise.

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