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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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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Posted 5:09 PM by Gene

Diane Ravitch falls into that trap of mistaking the END OF BOOK REVUEING for the end of LITERATURE. How many times must we say it -- because of culture, because of the media-industrial complex, because of academe, and because of boring authors themselves, more and more books are exactly alike, and more and more readers read fewer and fewer books. And who wants to read dull revues of dull books? Yes, reading mind-numbing Web sites creates GIGO, but it's better than nothing. I too bemoan the lack of a high culture, but we're closer to not getting it the more we wail about THE DAILY KAPLAN cutting its BOOK-REVUE SECTION. I'd rather read an airhead typing phonetically than THE LAUREATE or HISTORY'S GREATEST SATIRIST LOGROLLING.

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