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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, September 15, 2008

Posted 7:29 PM by Gene

I had not heard of Richard Wright before today. (To be sure, I'd heard of another Richard Wright, however.) An instant excuse may be I didn't have to. That won't wash because if rock were the fount of genius its defenders insist it is we should know of its songwriters, the way pop culture did when the Broadway musical was in vogue. I am a little less likely to be patient when his group was the bees knees to the same sort of anal retentives who think The It's a Wonderful Life of the Nineties the direct successor to Shakespeare. Rock became no fun when it put on airs, and that was about the time of Pink Floyd, and it hasn't been any good since.

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