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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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Friday, May 09, 2003

Posted 5:26 PM by Gene

And the flip side of Howellism is Sondheimism, the relentless hero worship of the most unmusical composer ever to be called a genius. "BETTER THAN PORGY AND BESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Let's see, better than "Summertime," "I Got Plenty o' Nothin'," "It Ain't Necessarily So," "Bess, You Is My Woman Now"....Hum me ONE song from a Sondheim MASTERPIECE other than that self-pitying dirge "Send in the Clowns," which is just "I Remember It Well" after a visit to a shrink. I'll say this: if Puccini or Bizet had written one opera as tuneless as any of our modern hero's MASTERPIECES, he'd have killed himself for his lack of inspiration. (I'm disappointed that Terry "Unpronounceable" Teachout wrote this piece of garbage. I thought he had more sense than that. I guess not.)

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