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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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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Posted 5:21 PM by Gene

A RORSCHACH TEST OF MU-SICK: When our daily news whines are having trouble covering city hall, when Rocky Mountain Newses are folding, when newspaper chains are declaring bankruptcy or cutting their dividends, it is hard to believe the Boston Globe has what seem like twelve rock mu-SICK cri-TICS. And their schtick here is exasperating: they mock overrated acts and praise acts they admit are mostly bad -- and tellingly their mocks are far longer than their praises, which we can't ascribe to mere guilt feelings for the latter. It is exasperating because our news hacks have only spent the last four decades telling us we live in an age of unprecedented cultural bounty, yet now, now in 2009, they must concede the Four Mop-Haired Jesus Christs have become tiresome through overexposure, and that William Shakespeare Dylan cannot sing -- and that it seems like the first time such concerted common sense has run in a paper makes this effusion of would-be iconoclasm even more exasperating.

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