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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, June 13, 2008

Posted 7:41 AM by Gene

We have learned the sad story of a pop-mu-SIC cri-TIC forced to resign when his Hearstie overlords discovered his writing was full of ectoplasm. It must be a stupid writer who can have his column ghosted; even in this day when blogging beats all, who would not want a prominent spot in a dinosaur newspaper...for pay? We'd guess the man has excuses; he was doing "translations", for one thing -- his beat was Mexican music -- and besides he sounds like just another of the species of pop-mu-SIC cri-TIC who writes all too much and thinks all too little; imagine the exemplars of the breed, geniuses like Robert "Over the" Hilburn and Jim DeRogatis. Uncovering this fool will not stop the copying and transcribing of CW that goes on all the time in pop-mu-SIC criti-CISM, one news industry creature that should go extinct.

(Revised 8:20 a.m. We thought ArtsJournal posted it first but Romy can never be denied.)

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