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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, October 16, 2010

Posted 5:06 PM by Gene

TNR was in a bad mood this week -- first, it discovered BALLET is "DYING"! Then it discovered "the West" can't build ARCS DU TRIOMPHE anymore! Of course ballet is dying; Tchaikovsky stopped writing ballets 117 years ago, and the last one with a decent score is Fancy Free. Despite attempts to ballet to rock you can't write a JERRY SPRINGER ballet. And so what remains is the same old moves and anorexia and the fact ballet is even more gay than theater. Our culture loses when a profound art form like ballet does not live, but then jazz has been a corpse for so long we no longer notice because (to quote ourselves again) it has no smell. As for noble monuments -- who in his right mind would put up a noble monument to, say, the Iraq war? We've lost that ability to daydream that Napoleon and his heirs had, and without daydreams we cannot have monuments, but then without daydreams we have no future. And that's why our culture reeks with no smell too.

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