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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, July 24, 2010

Posted 3:03 PM by Gene

Then there's appeared this article suggesting classical music's sprouting a "new golden age". In a very narrow sense this may be true. More people must be earning their keep from the music; collectively the standard of performance has probably never been higher. (Some classic orchestras of the past sound distinctly flat with today's ears.) And it is probably true that before the phonograph most people gave little heed to music of any kind. But classical music is a niche item where it ought not to be; that for all the Web's wonders precious little of the music is broadcast; that the world is on the verge of having one classical-music recording company -- and most important, nobody's writing Beethoven's Fifth anymore. And just because a lot of third-rate scribblers are writing "operas" should NOT mean anything. I'll believe we're in a new golden age for classical music when I hear it -- and that means new works speaking to us as well as the old. I do not expect that to happen.

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