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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, November 01, 2009

Posted 3:44 PM by Gene

This odd story about a dispute between branches of the Gershwin family over royalties shows the limits of permanent copyright. Cretins like FORMER SEN. MICKEY-MOUSE PROTECTION ACT and CONGRESSPOOP MARY "FOREVER MINUS A DAY" BONO MACK have endorsed it. ("Hey maybe Ah cayn't sing a teeyune thahyt wayell but ah cayn shore hum $8 million!") But in time so many people would be fighting over increasingly diminished shares as to make money only for lawyers. Public domain has its flaws, but so does making intellectual property permanent private property. Let copyrights lapse after a reasonable time, then music such as a Gershwins' will belong free and clear to its true heirs -- the people.

(Via the usual AHTSJournal)

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