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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, March 23, 2007

Posted 8:43 AM by Gene

Whenever a hack does the show-biz-is-better-than-ever routine, we think dollars -- the writer's and ours. And when some scribbler for an ALTERNARAG belches about this superplatinum age of "INDEPENDENT" music, we know what it means: more tunelessness with more of an attitude. The film biz' misuse of "INDEPENDENT" makes us distrust the word anyway. Of course he bemoans the "knee-jerk conservative" types with their set-in-cement playlists (if that isn't in danger of becoming a cliche....), but why should CHEAP CHANNEL play music that offends its listeners even more than it offends them now? Besides, for God's sake, if people want to listen to new kinds of crappy music, there are more ways to do so than ever, as even this toady admits.

(Via ArtsJournal, which has these annoying links)

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