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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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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Posted 6:07 PM by Gene

Telegraph is selling a one-name wonder. She's cute, if a bit made-up (but she could use stockings on her legs), and can supposedly sing but all sorts of telltale signs pop up on the Amazon.coms: one-hit wonder, sounds like, Amy Winehouse. (And this even among four-and five-star reviews.) We should not question any singer's longevity just out of the starter's gate but we doubt that Burt Bacharach and Hal David are in an office somewhere churning out her hits, as they did with Dionne Warwick (SIC!). We suspect her only chance, as THE MAN proved, is to create a persona, but a public sick of PR is sick of personas, and even the most tone-deaf "music" fans starve for real music, so the chances of this latest trend disappearing are, alas, very good, and as with sensations before, it won't be altogether her fault.

Interesting: Amazon.com is sells it for $7.99. Amazon.co.uk sells it for £8.98. (This is from Vivendi.) If we could be sure this is music that would be an advantage.

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