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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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Monday, March 12, 2007

Posted 5:09 PM by Gene

In the news biz' latest bid to prove its irrelevance, rock music ad-blurbists have been having a knock-down drag-out debate over who should be in Cleveland's White Elephant. They do not seem to be pleased. Even Edna, proud PR personage that she is, has to admit the "[r]oyal bloodlines have thinned since rock's heyday," which leads one to ask who will gain entry as an august member of the Elephant ten years hence. Of course ask Edna (or that SocSec eligible Robert "Over the" Hilburn, who alas can still write) whether there's any significance to this, and they'll write up 500 rave reviews to prove, basically, there isn't. But if tone-deaf blurbists can say in their own dense manner our culture's bad and getting worse, what hope is there?

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