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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, September 14, 2008

Posted 12:34 PM by Gene

Reviewing a book about The Grapes of Wrath Jonathan Yardley (who has discussed the topic before with some irritation) says an "important" novel may not be a good one. It's especially timely given the ghastly suicide of David Foster Wallace, who wrote one famous book (and whom The Paper of Re-CORD tellingly identifies in the hed as a "postmodern writer", not by his name), and from what we can gather it was a modern-day Tristram Shandy with footnotes, and we've discussed the topic before with some irritation. We have also said before that no judge is as stern as posterity, and when books go unread, or read only for their academic value, it may be unjust, but more likely there may be a reason.

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