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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, April 18, 2008

Posted 6:28 PM by Gene

In a hard-to-read article (dark type on a grayish-brown background) "an entertainment blogger for b5media" (roll the eyes) says the concert business is going kerflooey, weighted down with geezer acts, and all because all those kids are listening to their faves on the Web. We expect such keyboard testing from entertainment bloggers (and from DOW 36,000, who once opined OPERA IS HEALTHIER THAN EVER!!!!!), but riddle me this: Between the end of the seventies and the beginning of the Web boom newer powerhouse acts had plenty of time to establish themselves. Why didn't they? Maybe because they weren't so powerhouse. Next to today's "acts" they're positively the Beatles. Entertainment bloggers and like minds will NEVER admit pop music's simply been getting worse and worse -- but then they wouldn't be entertainment bloggers.

(Via the usual Arts & Letters Daily)

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