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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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Monday, November 29, 2010

Posted 5:29 PM by Gene

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH MOON, BLAH BLAH BLAH ABOVE: And since we're on the subject of lyrics, what sounds like a weighty rag with the avoirdupois of a million tons of feathers has run a 6,056-WORD THINK PIECE on the DICHOTOMY OF PUBLISHING. Having typed about this before we don't need 6,056 WORDS to say the publishing biz is divided between desiccated MFAs recycling their academic careers and hacks recycling the most risible genre fiction. Both put their readers to sleep, the former for the glory of some lower-case god and the latter dispensing a sedative as "entertainment" while lacking the guts to take pride in redefining stupid for their audience. We don't need 6,056 words to know li-te-rah-teeYURE STINKS, and given the sludge oozing from both sides of this grand cultural maw we don't need li-te-rah-teeYURE either.

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